Friday Roll Call

Happy Fourth!! Hope you all have something fun planned. I am going to do a few things around the house then we have a party in Elk Grove Village at 3PM The graduation yesterday was wonderful and my niece was part of the color guard during the ceremony; she carried the FL flag. Need to get moving.    & Christine

good morning and happy 4th of july! we are going to our town's festivities later this afternoon.  but before that we are laying low as my husband is on the 2 week protein shakes right now.  putting a damper on his holiday weekend but certainly preparing him for lap band, and he agrees.  i hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!  summer is so busy that i haven't been able to get on much with the kids home!

Good morning and Happy 4th of July.  Hope everyone has a great day.  We are not sure what we are going to do.  We went the parade and fireworks in Evergreen Park last night.  So we will probably hang out at home.  Have a great day!! Michlle

  Happy  4 th!!!!   Just hanging out at home until later going to dinner with my MOM. I may then stop and pick up my 18 mo old GD so big brother can enjoy the fireworks w/o he being all over. My daughter is taking them to a shopping center parking lot to watch the FW'S and I just think they would enjoy it more w/o Abby!  Karen

  Good Morning to all, Just taking a break between chores to get ready for a family BBQ/swim party. Not suire about swimming, its still kinda cool. But all the food is ready, and so is the yard and pool, so I am trying to get a bit of breakfast down. Our FW's aren't until tomorrow night, and we will watch them from our yard. I will have my GD here for the weekend. That is always fun, and I didn't ask her, she called me and asked to stay. Ya know, nothing would stop me from having her. She is growing up so fast. Hugs and have a great 4th.

Happy fourth my friends!

We are going shopping this morning and having our local family over to dinner. We should be able to see the fireworks from our neighbors lawn, so we won't have to fight the traffic.

Enjoy your day!

Connie 

Good Afternoon Everyone, HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!  Today will be my first day around alot of food, I'm pretty nervous.  I know I wouldn't try to eat anything as I just today started my creamed soup phase, nothing is worth getting sick over.  But I did tell my hubby if it gets too hard we are leaving.  I'm taking all my provisions I need, but we all know at this point it isn't the same, so like the psychlogist said remove yourself from the problem, so I will have to do that if need be.  Yesterday I had to make 12 hamburgers, a poke cake and pasta salad, now you think my mother in law would realize that I still don't have much energy at all, and of course no one else will bring what they were asked to bring, but I forget who I'm talking about here, don't get me wrong I love the woman but sometimes.  Shoot ladies I'm sorry for venting just having one of them days.  I'm disappointed that I still haven't went down a size but I've lost 34 pounds, it's discouraging.   Again sorry if I brought anyone down wasn't my intent.  Have a great day! Angie

Congrats on the 34 pound weight loss Angie!  Do not get discouraged...it is happening.  Just think 4 weeks ago those 34 pounds were on your back and now they are gone..WooHoo!  Your still in the early stag...it is happening. We are here for you!

Carol thanks for the words of encouragement.  And you made a good point about those pounds still being on me, but they're gone.  Creamed of chicken and mushroom soup is the bomb....lol

I love to take cream of mushroom lowfat, and cream of celery soup , or cream of chicken mix 2 together and heat get me out 1/2 cup and save the rest for through the week. Its so good. I will add some veggies daily of what I had left over the day before. Which could be pureed if needed. I had some 97/3 ground beef the other day so I browned up 1 oz, with 4 tlbs on, added about 3 tlbs of some mixed veggies in my two soup mix and it was so good. I thought I would get 4 to 5 servings out of it but my some loved it and so did the GS so when I went in to heat up some it was gone. I did this with the pureed stage and it was so good!!

If you need to vent about things this is the place because no one else really understands the life changes we have made! Its like sometimes they want to see us fail again. Well with all I have been through to get here I will never be SUPER OBESE again! I shutter thinking I was called that!

Ok enough just know we r here for you!!!!