age 45-50 group. Anyone interested?

I have looked for twins and poked around other groups without finding a real support group.

I am 48, 5'5", SW 151, CW 134, GW 128

I am the school teaching mother of three in their upper teens, wife of my 3 lbs from goal hubby.

SO...

Anyone interested?

Tammy hope your mouth is  better.  Guess you are numb now which makes it hard to eat.  Had a bunch of teeth problems a few years back and man it sucks.  Feel better soon

Connie HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU  is it nifty to be fifty?  Enjoy the weekend & festivities if you gain a pound or 2 you will lose it!!  Just enjoy you have to do that once in awhile.  I already lost the 2 lbs I gained from the pie & donuts.  Just get back to it Monday and you will be alright.

Got some big storms rolling in now and it is 93 degrees.

Happy Birthday Connie. I hope you had a fun celebration!

I'm finished work for the summer after tomorrow!! Yeah!

HAve a great weekend everybody.

Janet

Happy birthday Connie.  And thanks everyone for your messages of support.  You all helped me through 10 days of doubt which of course coincided with TTOTM.  I weighed myself this morning and have dropped a massive 2lbs so I'm back on track with my plan.   I never did give up eating well, though I stopped recording for a little while.  Can't explain the hospital weight reading, but I know I can now fasten last years jeans, though it will still take another month or so before I'd want to be seen in them!   Thanks again for the encouragement.  

I hope you are all well and motivated.  I guess those of you in high humidity places are used to this, but this is my first year in such a hot country.  I'm hoping it has a sauna like effect on me!  Meantime I've adjusted my walking schedule to the later cooler evenings and found all the familiar faces out there at the same time - obvious really.

Enjoy the weekend and sun if it's shining where you are.

Daryl

Woah, quiet wall this past week!  Guess summer has got a hold of everyone's attention....oh well, just a quick hello from me...nothing new to report really, attempts at weight loss have stalled, but that's ok...belated HAPPY BDAY CONNIE!!!  Hope it was great   Check you all later, Suz xx

Hi Girls! Thanks so much for all the B Day wishes. I'm still alive but just barely!!! Bobby threw me a great party and I had so much fun....felt quite a bit older the rest of the weekend...ahem....but anyway now I can't hardly talk....too much smoke around me I guess or too much laughter or heck I'm just OLD I don't know!!!!  I weighed yesterday and I gained 2 lbs but it was oh so worth it! Bobby fixed a pork loin BBQ and all the goodies to go with it PLUS a hugh cake (he didn't make that though) Now to make it through the fourth foods!!!!!

Have a great week everyone!

Where'd you all go?

Hope you all have a safe and happy 4th of July!!!

Hey Tammy I'm still here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really dunno where the rest of US are!!! Hope u r Good and having a great weekend to come!!!!

I've enjoyed a slow week at work - which is now over until Monday!  It could be a quiet holiday for me unless some of my friends don't have family functions to attend; then we could get together.  Otherwise I guess I'll go dancing and putter around the house.  Waiting for more of my fruit to ripen on the tree.  All is calm here.

Geeeezzz 59 post since my last one.  Reasons......trying to sell my house, back & neck pain keeping me off the computer when not at work.  My poor momma's health going down, just life in general.  See my journal for the whole story.

I read though as best I can.   So Congrats Axe!  That's awesome!

Connie Happy Late Birthday.  Your post making me giggle as usual and I can use that. 

Sue soooo sorry about your house.  My uncle had to strip his totally down after hurricane katrina and others in this area.  Such an ordeal.  I hope you get some new great looking floors.

Janet!  Hope you are doing well. 

Suz, Aly, Jazz, and all our newbies I hope everything is going great for everyone. 

Tru- WHERE ARE YOU?????  My friend and advisor. I could use you right now.

The biggest thing with me at the moment is that my mom just went on Hospice  care (at home) and it's breaking my heart and about the only thing I can truly deal with at the moment.  Connie what day was your mom's birthday?  Mine turned 78 on June 19th.  She can still get up and move around but I see the beginning of the end and I'm trying to prepare.  She has been so great and lived her entire life for her family that it will be so very hard to let her go.  I love her soooo very much. 

Oh Lucy it is so great to hear from you. I've been worried. I am so sorry about your Mom and understand fully how you are feeling honey! My Moms health is also declining and to see such a strong woman so feeble is very sad and hard but we just have to cherish every second that we have while they are here with us ya know. My mom turned 82 on June the 12th.

I am glad that my post at least gave you a smile!!! Hey at least I'm good for something on here other than fussing and being the drama QUEEN LOL!

Hope everyone has a safe and Happy 4th. I won't be here till after. Gonna stay at Bobby's tomorrow and tomorrow night....my cats will have a fit cause the fireworks noise does scare them and I of ourse am feeling quite guilty but I just gotta go....more cook outs and lbs to look forward too!

Hi Lucy - great to see you back, but sorry to hear you have been dealing with some rough situations.  I guess we are have all approached that stage in life where elderly parents are cause for concern.  My mum turned 81 on June 25th and my dad will be 85 in November.  Both have had their ups and downs lately, and I feel guilty now, more than ever, that I live overseas and dont get to see them as often as I would like.  Plus I feel like my sister has to shoulder most of the "responsibility" for them.....never easy!

Happy 4th holiday weekend to all you Americans!!  Have a great weekend....

Bye for now,

Suz

Have fun Connie!  You deserve some fun.  I agree and savor my time with her.  She actually felt like doing a little shopping with my sister today.  She'll go as long as she can walk but lately she gets so weak her leaving the house is becoming less and less.

Suz I see mom at least every Sunday.  One of my sisters lives behind her and the other one sees her every Saturday.  My brother is the only one not in town.  Dad is in a little better shape.  He was 82 in Jan.  Someone is always with her.   I can understand how you feel being away.

Hi all still here just been busy.  Still busy just wanted to drop in.  Everyone take care

Hi Girls! Hope all is well with everyone. YES of course I gained over the last 2 weekends and am now back to 142......UGH! Just wanted to pop in and check on everybody but my gosh everybody must be off WORKING OUT somewhere??????????? or something.....LOL

Talk to you all soon!

Connie

Hi to everyone. 

LOL, nooooo Connie - quite the opposite for me, I have been a couch potato lately.  Between Wimbledon tennis finals at the weekend and the MJ Memorial yesterday (very moving, I thought ), the TV has been watched A LOT over the past few days!!!! 

Suz

Oh I know Suz wasn't the death of MJ very shocking and so sad. The last part of the memorial with his little girl really got to me the most of all. I hope that they find the people involved in getting him those drugs and put them behind bars forever. Our age group all grew up with him from the J-5 days on and it just seemed so unreal. He died the day before my birthday and Farrah Fawcets death was only a few days before that and i for one had worn my hair like that through my teen years  and then there was Ed Mcmahon who I had watched on Johnny Carson as a kid so it was all a bit eerie for me!

Ok off of all of that.....hope everyone has a great weekend and gets in touch soon so we will know all is well around our world!!!!!

Connie

Hi Jas, Connie, Suz  maybe I ran everyone off after coming back from such a long spell.  Hope not.  LOL  I had caught up with tru and she's just been busy like the rest of us.

I agree Connie eerie for me too.  I too felt like I grew up with MJ and also Donnie Osmond who looks to still be in fine shape.   What breaks my heart is the way Michael's life changed.  There has to be lots of reasons that his life went the way it did and I doubt that anybody other than those closest too him will ever know.  All of them were a great loss.

I'm still fighting intestinal problems and wondering if gluten may be the problem so I'm trying to go gluten free.  I guess I'll be cooking a lot more since so many processed foods have that in them.  They say that celiac disease is hereditary and even though no one in my family was ever diagnosed with it, my mom has had problems for years and a couple of my sisters also and I'm thinking hmmmm maybe I'm on to something.  Now that I look back my problems actually started while I was pregnant 26 years ago and it can lay dormant and be brought out by pregnancy or surgery.  Also if you have the kind of thyroid disease I do it could be a sign.  I should probably be tested but I read that most of the time the blood work isn't accurate and it means other test in your stomach or colon.   I have to have that done again in a year and just don't feel like going though that ordeal right now.  Hubby did today and he is not is a fun mood now I can tell you.  So it makes since to me if I stop using it and I start feeling wonderful then I have hit the nail on the head.  If not then next idea. 

Love ya'll!  Have a great weekend!

Hi Girls! I just had to rant this morning so look out!!! First as hot as its been my air conditioning mesed up day before yesterday but ok all is fixed on that one but now this morning i get up to a running water sound and its the toilet in my back bathroom.....UGH! I turned off the water of course but now what I thought was to be a relaxing Saturday is going to be going to lowes and getting plumbing stuff and either trying it myself or calling on one of my brothers or Bobby....(ny house is a wreck right now) I've just been so busy with Doctors and dentists and Mom and kitties and and and .......HELP!!!! LOL   There is not enough CALGON in the world to "take me away" (hope you all remember that commercial)!

Lucy I am thinking maybe everyone will come back now that you are back instead of it being the other way around!!! I also feel for you on the intestinal problems (remember I hae IBS) No fun at all! Let me know how you are doing.

Tammy hows it going with the Ali? I still haven't bought any to give it a try yet.

I just want to know where everyone else is and hear about all the fun the rest of you are having while i have turned into a PLUMBER.....hey I don't have to let my butt crack show do I??????? LOL OOPS hope no ones hubby is a plumber...

Well on that last note I will say Have a great sunny Saturday all!

Good morning all - It's been a long time since I've been here - but looks like many of our regulars have been kind of quiet lately. Connie, happy belated birthday- and I'm so happy you and Bobby are still going out. Just to catch you all up quickly: First, my house is still under re-construction from our flooded bathroom, but it will probably be done in about 10 days. It is live-able - just messy. Sometimes our computer (when the video card isn't dying, which it is) has been unplugged, so that's part of the reason I've been unplugged from here as well. Second, we had a wonderful family vacation and have been reliving all those great memories with our pictures. Third, it is so hot here - should be about 114 this weekend. The summer storms, which at least cool us off a little, haven't started here yet.

Anyway, on the weight loss front, I have been gaining instead of losing and will try to get back to better habits.

Just got some potentially bad news about my Mom yesterday- possible cancer. So, like Lucy and others know, it is hard to cope with our parents aging. I know we are at "that age" but it is still hard. I am praying and praying that it isn't cancer - won't know anything else for a few days. She just had a follow-up x-ray on Thursday and they confirmed a mass from that yesterday. So we have to wait until Monday for another appointment.

Wow - this is a real downer message. Sorry. Life isn't all bad - I think I am just worried about my Mom right now so everything is looking bleak. But, I'm happy to be back 'talking' to all of you. 

Sue

Sue - Praying that the news is good for your mom - Take care 

Suz xx