I hope you are doing well with the BL challenge. I have not lost anything since we started, but with time in the World and being off plan for 5 days, its better than gaining!!!
I am so happy. I realize that the first week is usually a bigger number of pounds lost than normal, but I will still take it. I am happy with my week overall and hope for a better week exercise-wise next week (I fell on Tuesday night and didn't get in any exercise for two days this week because I was so sore). Anyway, thanks to everyone for their encouragement and I look forward to reading everyone's posts of their own weight loss journey.
I am not weighing in until Tuesday because that is WI day for our BL challange.
Sorry to hear about your pooch-it is very difficult to make the decision about your pets when they are sick. We had to put our cat Okie down not long after we were married, and I still remember it as one of the hardest things we ever did. Prayers for you and Coco.
but tomorrow I am back on the treadmill, running some more.
I think you put it best and we just have to love and enjoy them while they are still here. 
Okay, I am trying to post a few before and during pics of me from WDW. I hope you can see them okay!!
December 06 almost at my heaviest
September 07 42 lbs lighter
SeaSpray-Only 6 more weeks until the EOS!!! You must be totally jazzed. I have 7 more months until I go and I can hardly stand it! DH is looking at a short cruise in the meantime to use up the last of our SWA credit. I say we should go as it is "research" for the podcast!!
I just wanted to report in - today was my first "official" weigh-in and I LOST 6 POUNDS!!!!!!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
sorry about your fall, I hope you're feeling better now. Hey Sistahs!
I got back late last night from 7 glorious days in Aruba! It is absolutely beautiful there! It was very hot and humid as soon as you walked out the door you started to sweat! We drank lots of water but that really did not seem to help. We were in paradise so that is all that really matters! I probably drank and ate too much but when your on vacation calories don't count right?
After what seemed like the longest day of flying ever I came home and have a notice to pick up a parcel from DISNEY at the Post office. I am going first thing tomorrow to see what it is! I can't wait!
I posted this on our BL thread but I wanted to tell my sistahs about my furbaby Coco. Well Friday before we left we got some not so great news. I noticed Wednesday evening that he was bleeding and I cleaned the wound. I took him to the vets and it turns out he has a tumor that burst and requires surgery (he had two lumps on his back but the vet said it was nothing to worry about at his check up in January). Chances are it is cancer and that is not hopeful. The surgery will cost anywhere from $650 - $2000. The preop testing to see if he can even make it through surgery is around $200 (he's 9). He has had some health issues in the past and had to go through a lot of testing. My mom and I vowed to never put him through anything like that again. We keep thinking well what if it isn't cancer but then what if it is. We just don't know what to do. I think we have to make a very tough decision soon and its not an easy one. Amoungst all of this I had to scramble to find someone to watch him and his siblings (1 brother doggie and 2 sister cats) because the kennel would not take him and we were leaving Saturday early morning. The wound does not look as bad and he is on antibiotics right now so maybe that will help buy us a few more weeks with him.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest!
Have a great day sistahs!
Michele
I'm so sorry to hear about Coco 
It's a very difficult decision to make, but I'm sure you'll do the right thing at the right time. We had to put down our first Siamese cat back in 2000. It was so rough not only on DH and I, but also on DSs who were only 12 and 9 at the time It's amazing how attached we get to our little furry babies!I had a pretty good day yesterday. I made rice pasta for dinner (which was not on my eating plan, but my DH wanted some) and I measured out what I thought would be an appropriate portion, so I hope I didn't go overboard with it. I got up early this morning and exercised for 30 minutes, I'm pushing the water and squarely on my eating plan today, so I hope I have a good week.
Hope everyone else has a great day - stay healthy!
Wow! What a difference 42 pounds makes, eh? It's amazing!!!
Wow! I'm impressed! You go girl!
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). I have an MRI scheduled in a week or so for MS, and it will include my neck so he will take a look at that. He actually found several other swollen nodes, smaller than the one my doctor was worried about. I'm not sure what he thinks is going on--I think he told me, maybe something about calcification? but all I heard was "it doesn't look like lymphoma..." and that was good enough for me! He said if it were, the node would be larger, even in the early stages.
Thinking good thoughts for you.
Please keep us posted about your current health issues. We care about you and hope everything turns out well.
-- God really did a lot of work on me. He brought me to this place of such amazing trust in His plan. My biggest fear was leaving 4 children behind, esp. w/ the youngest having Down syndrome. But I came to realize that I was relying too much on myself, and that I could trust the hands that formed the Earth, the hands that knit these children together in my womb, to take care of them. I also just decided to really cull out all the stress in my life, to rework priorities. Joy, peace, love, laughter. 
