Hi, i am new on the website. Is there somebody here who is 40 and + ?

I am 40 years old, 5"5 and 148 . My goal is 137 and i  should be 137 by July. Would like to find  somebody to do this together, to support and to help to reach goals.

have a great day , everybody

Hi everybody,

Tammy,that is scary!!! Shooting in front of your house, wow. That never happened at the place where we live. But in Baltimore, that is 30 minutes away from us that happens every day, i watch morning news.

These couple days were really busy at work. We work until 1 o'clock today and we are off tomorrow and the next day after Thanksgiving. So i have stuff to do before the long week-end.  It is cold but sunny today. Lori, how are doing? I hope everything is all right.

Have a wonderful holiday and great week-end

Leila

It's quiet here usually.  That's a 1st and hope it's the last.  We've only lived here 2 yrs and where we use to live that would never happen.  My kids are scared to be in the front of the house now.  My son use to sit out front all the time.  And he had just come in the house when that happened.

I'm baking pies right now and the house smells so good!  I love Thanksgiving and x-mas dinners.  They just make the house smell so good!  I hope I can keep eveyone out of the pies tonight!  I swear if hubby gets into them when I go to sleep, I'll be so mad! I wouldn't be surprised.

Well, have a nice Thanksgiving! 

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING! Hide those pies, my other half already ate half of the stuffed mushrooms. Hope you both have the best day ever tomorrow.

Hi girls,

I hope you had great Thanksgiving! We had dinner at my in - laws and it was very nice. We spent good time just beeing together and talking. I baked pumpkin and apple pies to take with me and baked two for us too. I did good with the calories, didn't go over the limit, was actually under. And i lost pound this week so it is great.  My actual weight line and  green line are almost the same, i am 135 now and green line is 135.70. I am very close! I am off today and we are going to go shopping a little later with my husband. Maybe we will find some Christmas presents. Did you go shopping today?

I love the smell in the house at Christmas time when i bake cookies and pies. It is comforting and warm.

have a great week-end

Leila

Hello, I gained a pound, bet it was all from yesterday. I ate so much and had some of everything and enjoyed it. Leila glad you did well.

Happy to hear that you had a nice Thanksgiving, I did as well. So nice to have all the family together, even more so with the two new babies. It was the first Thanksgiving for both of them, and it was a great one. It was so nice after eating and talking for hours, we sat around the fireplace and relaxed. We all have so much to be thankful for, life is good.

Tammy I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and that your back wasn't to bad.

Enjoy the rest of the long weekend girls. I am working a 14 hour shift tomorrow (Sat), so I will be to busy to eat a lot. I am still full from yesterday lol

Be back on Sunday. 

Lori

I did have a nice Thanksgiving!  Thanks.  I did so well on my eating, I think I lost weight!  I weighed in this morning and it said 174, but TTOM showed up so it's probably alittle high.  So, looks like I lost weight.  LOL  How crazy is that? I'll weigh myself in a couple days and see what it says.

The food from Thursday is just about gone, thanks to my kids and hubby!  They're still telling me it's good, so I must've "hit the spot" on what to cook.

Gotta run to the store, so I'll be back later. 

Hello,

Hope the long weekend was a good one. I had lots of fun and got lots done. Thanksgiving was wonderful! Saturday I worked 14 hours, and loved every minute of it. Today I wrapped Christmas gift for 4 hours this morning, while getting laundry done. Cleaned the whole house this afternoon. Hubby and I went out for dinner and a couple of drinks tonight.

Just about done with Christmas shopping, hoping to finish up tomorrow. Don't know when that will get wrapped, but we still have 25 days.

Hoping to lose a few pounds by Christmas, so if I gain it back with all of the holiday eating I will still be at my goal after. Been paying for the gym for months without going, I think I will plan on going back after New years.

Have a great Monday!   Lori

Hi girls,

I had a very long and wonderful week-end, from Wednesday to Sunday. It was hard to get up today and go to work but i am here. Everybody is sleepy and talk about shopping on-line, i guess that's what we will be doing today. I hope to loose couple pounds until Chtristmas too. I am planning to go to the gym this week. I am done with Christmas presents for my family and going to sent the box on Saturday. Now i need to start looking for the presents for my husband and his family.  I will try to by in my calories even on Christmas holidays, and i think that now i just can't eat much. We went couple times out for dinner and i always took half of the meal home.

have a good day

Leila

I weigh 169!!!!  Woo Hoo!!!!  I can't stay on long, but had to pop in and say hi! 

I haven't bought a thing yet for anyone.  I think I better get on the ball soon!

I'm always one to wait though.  I don't know what I'm waiting on though.  Maybe for someone to go for me! hehehe

be back tomorrow!

Hi.

Well, i gained one pound this week, i am 136 now. I didn't have a chance to go to the gym this week at all. I was very busy at work and at home. It's the same thing again, going back and forth with one pound.  I am going to go the gym tomorrow and on Sunday morning.

Yes, Tanny, you better start your shopping, Christmas is not so far away. I am almost done, have couple little things to get. After that it will be just wrapping, which will be easy, because i don't need to wrap some presents.

Lori, haven't heard from your for a while. I hope everything is all right with you.

Today after work and tomorrow will be shopping days for me.

have a nice day

Leila

Hello ladies,

Been picking up extra shifts at work this week, hoping not to have to charge for Christmas this year. Been staying the same with the weight, doing good with my calories.

I must have done 12 hours of wrapping this week. Every time I say "that's it I'm not buying anymore", I end up in the store for one thing and come out with 5 bags lol It is so hard with the babies, so many cute things, I can't help but buy them. My family keeps laughing at me, when I say I'm done wrapping, because they know I keep buying more. I told my daughter she better not buy much for her boys, I think I bought everything you could think of.

So I'm off to shop again, but only for some of my patients. I work in a state run foster home with all chronically ill children, so I want to get them all something little. It's a lot of extra gifts to buy so I'm trying to think of something not so expensive, maybe scarfs and gloves.

Tammy get out there and get it done girl, how can you not be nervous it is already the 5th. I bet you will be wrapping on Christmas eve. On Christmas eve day I'm working from 9am until 1 pm, then having a house full of family at 4pm. I must be crazy, but I know I will manage. I want to go in that day because I won't be working Christmas, so I want to see all the kids. It really is a great place to work, very touching to see them smile, very hard lives they live.     

I'm sorry I'm all over the place here, I'm rushing to get out the door. I'm trying to decide when to get my tree, I want to get it now, but I don't feel like moving the furniture around yet. I have my nieces birthday party on Sunday, so maybe tomorrow I'll do the tree. Once I have the tree up, I get really into the Christmas spirit. It will be so much fun this year with 3 babies looking at the lights.

Leila I'm proud that you are still going to the gym, I'm going back in Jan. I know I keep saying I'm going back but I really mean it.

Tammy how is your back, any better yet? Hope it is much better. I think you better get someone to do your Christmas wrapping for you, my back is killing from that.

Oh ****, let me go weigh myself, be right back.

O.k. I weighed myself, but forget what I was last week. I'll check that now and let you know how I did.

Wow I'm down 2 pounds from last week, think I was up 1 last weekso I loast that and another. That makes me happy, now I'll go buy the faster kids their gifts.

Have a great weekend.  Oh ya, we are going to have snow for the first time this year on Sunday, but only a dusting.

I just noticed that we can't say bad words on here, I wrote one and it has been replaced with ****. I'm sure you can figure it out, starts with s and ends with t. lol

Hi everybody,

I managed to go to the gym two days in the row, Saturday morning and Sunday morning . On Sunday i had body pump class, which was great. I  figured that i can't go during the week right now, so i will go on week-ends.  I am done with Christmas shopping!!!!!!! Yesterday we were shopping whole day and finished. Now i need to wrap everything and i feel that my back starts aching now I will spend a lot of time sitting on the floor.  We had snow yesterday for the first time and in the morning when i left house everything was white, cars were covered with snow, as were trees and ground. That was really beautiful picture. And it is really cold. So i feel like Christmas today.

That is so great that you want to give little presents for kids. I didn't know that you work in foster home. That is probably difficult to see how they suffer, they are so little and probably went through a lot.

I am doing good with the calories, actually almost every day i am under. And today i feel like i can eat something that i wanted for couple weeks - a piece of cake. I burned a lot of calories today at body pump class, i was sweating so bad, that it was embarrassing.

Well, we have a company lunch before Christmas and potluck in our department. I am going to bake German Chocolate cake.

Christmas is coming......... and it's great. Next week-end i am going to bake cookies for my husband and for the office.

stay warm and take care

Leila

Hello

I had cake today too leila, it was my nieces 5th birthday party.

Yes I am a nurse in the foster home, all the kids are not only foster kids without a family, but very sick. It is a great job, hard emotionally at times, but also very rewarding. The pay is unbelievabe, which is great for me, as I don't want to work full time anymore.

We had our first snow as wee. but I don't really count it as a snow it didn't stick at all. More  just a flurry, than anything.

I went to the bank before the birthday party (ATM), and forgot my card in the machine. Hubby called while I was at the party to tell me some ladie dropped off my bank card, I didn't even know it was missing yet. I'm really freaked out, don't know how she got my address. I can'e believe I forgot it, don't know where my mind was at.

I'm thinking about getting my tree tomorrow, I can't wait to have that done.

Hope you girls had a great weekend, I'm jealous that you went to the gym twice this weekend.

Lori

Hi ,

Yes, i went to the gym two times and you can say that looking at me. I can't walk and i had a hard time to get out of the bed too. But at least i feel satisfied that i did it.

I am going to wrap all my presents next week-end and i need to finish with my Christmas cards too, to be able to sent them away next week-end as well.  Christmas tree will be up next week-end, i hope. Seems like i plan a lot for the next week-end, but i will do it. I was cleaning yesterday half of the day, so next week-end i could do what is important.

Well, that is amazine that the lady brought your card. That's nice to know that there are still  good people out there.Usually people don't do such things anymore.

I am planning to go to the gym on Tuesday again.

have a nice day

Leila

Hate to say this, but I ate at Mcdonalds today. Bad choices, I had a handburger and a mcchicken sandwich. Just thought I would let someone know how very bad I was.

Got the tree today, I will let it fall tonight and decorate it tomorrow. Once the lights are on I get so excited like a kid, makes it feel like Christmas is really coming.

Does sound like you planned a lot for one weekend Leila, but it will all work out.

Tammy you will be wrapping when we are enjoying and relaxing lol

Oh, Lori, how could you eat in McDonalds!!!  That is really bad. Maybe you just needed to eat something bad, it just makes you feel better(while you are eating) and then you feel guilty. I know this feeling. You know sometimes i crave a piece of cake, chocolate or pizza and i eat it. After that i feel guilty. But we are all human, so don't be so hard on yourself.

I didn't put the Christmas tree yet, we have artificial one. Once we had real tree and i was cleaning after that all year round. So we bouth artificial and that works for us. But it takes time to put it together and to decorate it. I don't know yet when i will do this, maybe one day after work when i will be in mood for that.

I feel so sour still, i can't walk, can't sit down without feeling pain in my legs. Well, i didn't have a class for a long time, that is the result. But now i want to go every Sunday. I hope i will be able to do everything planned for the week-end.

Leila

Hi ladies,

I stayed at home today, took a sick day. I had an allergies for a week or so and it was around my eyes. I took Benadril and everything was clean but then it came back. I still don't know what causes allergy. So i woke up this morning and my eye that was clean yesterday was all puffy and red and i had hard time to open it. So i panicked and ran to the doctor. She told me that i don't have problem with eyed inside, it's just outside and that could be face cream, eye cream or make up i use. So she didn't tell me anything new, but she told me that i need to take Zyrtec. It helped a little,hopefully allergies will go away.

I am going to the gym tomorrow, because today i couldn't go. This medicine makes you so drausy,you can't drive. I slept half of the day today. How are you doing? I hope better i do.

Leila

Leila sorry your eye has been bothering you, hope you get that resolved quickly.

My shopping is done, my tree is up and decorated and I'm all most done wrapping the last things I bought. Last night the boys enjoyed the tree so much, it made all the work worth it. Nate (6mths old) stared at it for hours, smiling all the time. JC ( 2 1/2 yrs) was mad that there was a tree in the house, guess he doesn't remember last Christmas. Once it was decorated he loved it too. I can't wait to see his face on Christmas eve when he opens all of his gifts at Nonna's house.

My daughter is a bad influence on me, had the McDonald's drive thru with her and then yesterday treated me to fried clams from Kellys. The are the best clams around and very expensive. God why did she have to get me the thing with the most calories?

Tomorrow when I weigh in I might be crying, I hope not.

Have a great day.

hi ladies!  Good morning!

I haven't been here bc I'm going thru some stuff with my son.  He's in a bind.  Long story, but we're hoping that it's gonna be ok for him.

But I think all the stress has made me put on a few pounds.  Monday was a trip to the police station and Tuesday am, up 4 pounds.  Today I'm down 1. So 3 to go.  Someone told me it could be my cortisol level from the stress. What ya think? Cortisol?  I don't know much about that.  I tried so hard to get to 169, and now I'm 172 again!  SHEESH!!!!

Clams, ewwww!!! LOL  You can have them!! 

Hi,

Thank you,Lori, my eyes are much better today. The medicine worked and i slept for couple hours. But i also put my Christmas tree and decorated it. So on week-end i will need to wrap the presents and my Christmas cards are ready to be sent out.  Fried clams sounds good, here in Maryland, they are in every restaurant and very good. But they are deep fried which means they are high in calories. It is Christmas time almost,i guess you will eat a lot of stuff that you shouldn't. I am under my calories and will see what scale will show tomorrow for me. It is raining here second day but on week-end cold weather will come back with snow showers.

Leila