SDS Tuesday December 26th Everyone Welcome

[stagemomx3]

:bcbkickbu Starting the thread.

[busymommy]

Hey all. Hope you all had a great Christmas.

I did...but man am I ever exhausted now. Jeff and the kids spoiled me this year. Besides my new camera he also got me the new Coach bag I have been eyeing...:bcb_smile

Let me see if I can get the new camera to down load...BRB

[secretlysain]

good morning everyone
Getting ready to go to work and decided I would drop a line or two. Xmas was good yesterday and now it is over and its a new day. Here its been raining all night and still raining so my walk got cut short. I am so glad xmas turned out good we went to our friends house and opened gifts. I am excited with the new year and I am making a new start. I ate everything in sight but now its over and a new day. Tomorrow is my dh birthday so I will only have a real small peice of cake. How is everyone else doing??

[motivated_in_mn]

Hi there! I am glad that you all had good christmases. Mine was small for the most part. My DH finds out on Jan 6th if he's going to be laid off, so we had to keep things pretty simple. NDLaura and our friend Andrea spoiled me and got me new luggage, which is awesome and will be useful for going to visit them:bcb_bigsm . She hasn't been here lately, she said, but neither have I for a while, I am back, I am back, I am back... I did miss you all. It's funny that I think about you when I am not coming here, and I think it's good. I am going to my meeting tomorrow for what will be a very ugly weigh in, but it will BE a WI and I will BE accountable, and I WILL start over. And I will start over before things have spiraled horribly out of control.

Melody- Please tell me how the Ab thing works out! I have been eyeing those for a while. I have a b-day in Feb. and I doubt I will have discovered a love for the old-fashioned sit ups before then.

Laura- I am glad you had a good christmas. You are so lucky- I would love a Coach bag, but it's just not in my future... I am glad that your hubby spoiled you- you deserve it.

Jennifer- I am so glad that you had a good christmas. I was thinking about you. I love New Years, too. It's my favorite holiday, in fact.

I know I need to do more personals but I need to go get back to my dear son...

Vicki, Bushra, Melody, NDlaura, Nancy, Sue, Mary, Michelle, Terri and Angel (I am missing someone...) I hope that you have a great on plan day! I am so glad to have you as BCB sistahs and I miss you. Love! Shi

[stagemomx3]

Good Morning, I'm here and just hanging out. Today is going to be very laid back day. I plan to do my Couch to 5K run and get some laundry done.

[NurseLD]

Hey all!! It's OVER!!!!!!!!!! Yahooooooo thank the lord. I think my stress level just went down alot!! I have the entire week off so i'm cleaning and doing errands and adding some more exercise into my normal routine! I'm kinda worried about New Years though. Every year my family orders chinese food (along with half a million of america). Anyways, this year i thought maybe the menu would be changed since my SIL is pregnant and she cant have MSG. Well just my luck, this place doesnt use MSG. Ughhhhh...i was looking for a simple way out. I'm gonna ask DH to make me some sushi instead...so while everyone is having chinese...i'll have japanese.

I'm debating on taking the Xmas tree down. I usually keep it up til New Years...but i'm just trying to figure out when i'll have time after new years..or IF i'll even have time.

Well i hope everyone has a good day...i'm sure i'll be back later to check posts. Take care everyone!

[MelodyC]

Good Morning Sistah's....

I agree with everyone else... i love Christmas but i'm glad it is over. I was trying to figure out what yesterday did to me but truthfully, i think with all the good habits i've picked up it was not as bad as it could have been. I did have a few tastes of sinfully delicious stuff and that was ok. If i had to compare my behavior to past years it is a huge improvement in attitudes. And, i had more of the potatoes which were really bad for ya, but i can only have them at best, once a year. So, all in all i'm pleased with my behavior.

This morning i went out to some of the Day After sales. I got some really cool stuff and all on major sale prices. The best was the new running shoes. Originally marked 49.95, clearance discounted 30%, todays sale another 30% and then i had a $10.00 off coupon. After tax it was $15.59. Oh, and did i mention they have cool lavender accents?? Yeah, they were calling my name and i had to have them and even better that i got a good deal on them too!! I also spent some of my Kohl's gift card from MIL and i got a neat Advent candleholder at 50% off and a few more christmasy things on sale at the little Christian Bookstore.

So, it was a pretty good morning. Now we are waiting for the tile guy to put the sealer on the new tile in the bathroom and then we are going out to look for a desk to put ds's new computer on. But, I'm not rushing anywhere. The house is neat and clean and i'm child free till Sunday so i'm just going to relax. Tomorrow morning i'm getting back into my exercise plan and tonite i'm going to start on my abdoer. I reviewed the tape last nite and it looks like a good workout program. They also have some aerobic stuff which look like it will be good for those cold or rainy days when i dont' want to walk outside. We shall see.... i'll keep you posted ShiLily!!

Ok... seems that the tile guy is done and DH is raring to go so i'm off and running. Hope everyone has a great OP day and i'll be back for personals later!! :bcb_salut

[Sus E]

Quick check in here.............wi tonight, half kilo up. :( the past couple of days I grazed a bit here and there. NOT good, NOT appropriate, and gave me the results of my actions. I'm bummed, feel like eating more for some strange reason, but I'm done. Feeling bad, dh is having a really hard time at his job and is very unhappy, and my emotions are trying to send me to the kitchen. I'm holding back. It's 10pm and I think i"m just going to close up the house and go to bed now before any damage is done.

I'm glad you all had a nice holiday and it's nice to see the group coming back together. We all need to hang in there during the next week and try to pull in the reigns a little bit tighter to help get us through.............the stronger the temptations, the stronger we need to be.

HUGS to you all...........I will be back online tomorrow evening my time, long day tomorrow at my teacher class. (to convert my teaching degree to the israeli system)

ok, HUGS again, bye!

[motivated_in_mn]

Hi I am back. Hey Susie- What do you teach? I have a whole new appriciation for the profession, let me tell you! I hope that you are successful at staying away from the kitchen. I am starting over tomorrow.

It's strange to me that after the last few weeks I should suddenly feel committed again, but I do. I was thinking about it today. I told myself that if I want to have the kind of results that I was having in the begining of this journey I was going to have to act like I did at the beginning of this journey. What's the saying? "skinny is, as skinny does..." :bcb_grin

So tomorrow is WI. That should be an eye-opener. I just hope that I can feel this commited tomorrow when it's over. I know that I am going to be disappointed, so I am planning on going for my walk right afterwards. I usually go to my son's confirmation class to help out, but I don't have to tomorrow since there is no school. I am going to drink my water, take my vitamin, go to WI, go for a long walk and maybe hit some sales. Then I plan on cleaning and laundry and spending some more time with the kids playing games and stuff. DH is off tomorrow so I may get a bit of time for myself, who knows.

See you all tomorrow... ShiLily