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Off to work....have a great day ladies!!! Lots of water, green tea & positive thoughts!!

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Good morning, Everyone!!! Tenaj, you were so good, only one cupcake and one cookie, I would have eaten many more!!! Hugs and positive thoughts to you as we'll!!!



Jaytee, cinnamon rolls are my favorite!!! Putting them together burns off calories, truly!! How fun that you and your daughter had a baking day!! Priceless!! Have fun with your Zumba DVD!!!!

Rocket, please keep us posted, please know you are in our thoughts and pvrayers!

Jaytee, I love cinnamon rolls too. I confess when we had the blizzard I baked a batch. Mmmmmmmm. I did share with the neighbors. I could have eaten it all by myself.I even looked up a recipe for Cinnabon icing, (like I needed to add cream cheese to my indulgence).....oh well....that's why I went backwards while I was recouperating. I'm still trying to get back to pre surgery weight. I hate those #'s! But I am working hard now to be successful. I ate we'll today,Yay!!! I vacummed & danced around with some light weights while I was blasting some music. Just relaxing with a cup of green tea & saying hello to my friends. )

Have a great evening!

Thinking of you and your Mom rocket. I went through this with my Mom a couple of years ago and it is a very hard time....



Eating better the past few days and I've completed week 3 of my running program!



Healthy eating everyone!

Great news about your mom's financial issue!! I pray that everything else falls into place as well for your dear Mom!!

I had a terrible eating day as well, but onward and forward!! It is so hard to stay focused when we have stressful situations. Take care everyone!!!!

May I ask you all a personal question!! Please pm me if you wish or don't even answer!! I so respect that. Is anyone here taking an antidepressant and how do you like it? I have not taken one for awhile, but I am thinking I might need one again. I don't  like them, because they make me gain weight and don't work after awhile. I took Lexapro when I was going through treatment and then stopped. Yikes, the exercise is not raising my endomorphins enough. I just need some advice on this I also know that taking aromosin can cause some depression, and I went off it and then back on it. Thanks so much for your consideration in this matter. Hugs and Blessings, Kathy

Wow, CookieMonster, that is great that you never needed them!!! I do not want to take them ever again either, just needed some advice, thanks, Tenaj and Rocket thank you so much for your very kind private messages!!! I think I will stick to exercise!!!! Hugs and Blessings

Thank you everyone, I have definitely decided to not use the antidepressants and stick with exercise, prayer and good nutrition. I just needed confirmation on that. According to my scale here, I am down a 1lb, but weigh in on Friday will hopefully confirm that. Hugs to you all!!!!! Kathy

Kathy you really are doing so well! I'm so happy for you.



Hey all you lovely ladies! I'm still having a lot of swelling in my foot. I have been on it too much, but after the end of the month when Mom is safely in her new facility I plan on getting my life back and my foot back into therapy. I just can't wait to get home! I'm pretty worn out. I did make a healthy vegetable soup tonight for dinner along with a salad. I had salad for lunch too. I could eat salad every single day and never get tired of it.



Hope you all are well. Thinking of you......

Kathy, that sounds like a great salad, I love salads with lots of fruit and nuts....one of my favourites is an Italian style fig, prosciutto, rocket and walnut...mmmmm!



Rocket, take it easy, you are going through a difficult time, glad to read that you are eating well...



Tenaj, sorry to hear about the hip, best to take it easy now so you'll be better in the long term.....



CookieMonster, spring break sounds great....

Good Morning Ladies,



I got some sleep last night after several meltdowns yesterday. I was so weary. I ate terribly yesterday - had my comfort food, pizza. Today I have new resolve. I ate my oatmeal this morning with prunes for bone health. I'm going to luxuriate in the tub and soak my foot to give it a jump start to the day. I'm going to do laundry for my sister and eat a healthy lunch of homemade split pea soup. There now I've committed myself.



Two more days and we fly Mom to Maine. Three years ago my sister and I took her on a cruise. It was difficult traveling with her then. She is three years older now, 88, and I anticipate a lot more difficulty. I pray all goes well. She will be completely exhausted after traveling all day, and then I'll have to get her up a flight of stairs to go to bed. We have to get her at 7:30 am to get to the airport by 9:30 am and then fly and have layovers all day (no direct flights), and then reach our destination airport at 5:30 pm and drive another hour to my brother's house. It will be grueling. She will be pushed in a transfer chair, but it will still be a very long, difficult day for her, my sister and me. The next day she will have her needs-based assessment. Prayers are welcome!



Thinking of all you sweet ladies today and hope your day is filled with blessings.

Hello everyone....kindergarten..why does bread have to be so good!  I love it too and know how you feel.  You just keep on keeping on...next week will be better.  It still is a good thing that you didn't gain! 

Its been a rough week here.  Terrible weather...so cold, but the sun did come out today.  A fellow bc friend that I sometimes walk with called today and asked if I was up for even a 30 minute walk.  That was the incentive I needed and we really almost walked an hour.  It was good....first time I had been out this week.  We have snow coming on Sunday night into Monday and they are saying 4-6 inches, hope they get that wrong again.  I think that its not really March here at all and we are stuck in Feb.!  Sounds like your weather has been similar, tenaj....I hope that we get past this and spring really comes!   I wish you a good weekend with your family too! 

We had an unexpected death in the family....a favorite Aunt.  She lives too far away for us to attend her memorial service and I feel so sad about that...she and her friends and Bible study ladies prayed so much for me when I was having my treatments.  I will miss her so much.  My Dad and his brother are now the only siblings left from a family of 10 children. 

Rocket...I hope that all will go well with your Mother's move.  We are kind of in a similar situation..my Dad has been in an assisted living facility near my sisters house and we are thinking of moving him back up here.  He lived here before he had a bad accident but has been near my other sister who is an LPN.  There is a nice place here....and he and my sister visited it with me this week.  Its homey and cheery and feels comfortable, but he has not really said outright that he wants to come back up here and that is what I would like to hear.  It will be an adjustment for him...the accident he had, left him with a brain injury and that makes it even harder to make changes.  He has come a long way since it happened...took him such a long time to realize how badly he had been hurt.    My sister had been talking to some people about brain injury back in 2010 and they said he should be where most of his memories are...but that same week I had found the lump and everything fell apart for me up here.   We just couldn't do it then. 

Tammy...Cookie..everyone....I hope that you will all have a good weekend.   Havent been here much this week but always think of you all!

Thank you kindergarten. She was a lovely lady...She loved to cook so guess what we liked to talk about when she would call...of course, food! Even though she lived so far away, it was nice to talk to her often. She was sort of a substitute Mom for me and my sisters after we lost our Mom. She did not have any children of her own,but she would have been a great mom. I am glad to have the good memories.

Good morning Tammy.....yes it is a difficult and frustrating path for them especially and for us too. Take care and have a good visit with your brother this weekend. Jaytee

Hello ladies...I know I have not been on here in such a long time...decided i needed to check in.

So, Hi everyone...  I will try to check back in more often.  I have had some health issues but I am doing so much better now.  I did lose about 10 pounds but not really by choice..I was unable to swallow food and had soup and instant breakfast for over three weeks. Had to have esophogus stretched..I have Schatzki's Ring..I had never even heard of it.  It forms a ring around your esphogus and makes it difficult to swallow.  Wow I feel so much better and even though I liked the weight loss..it sure was not a fun way to do it.. My fear is now that I am able to eat normally now I will put it all back on:(

Thanks for all the nice posts saying HI to me.. 

I am glad it will hopefully be nicer weather soon so I can get some walking in to help keep off the weight I have lost.

Hope everyone is doing well.  ATeamNan