Best of luck Dee Dee! Please let me know how it goes. Sending you good vibes for a quick recovery!!! I have had no problems for a while now with the gall bladder but just last night I had an attack again. =( It wasn't bad enough for an ER trip and it was gone by morning. I had a small cup of Chili at a place called Red Robin last night when we were out for dinner. I guess it must of had a lot of fat in it. That is probably what triggered the attack.

I am getting so discouraged with my weight loss. As you know, I cannot have the surgery right now cause ins won't cover it! We are waiting on a settlement which could be 2 years.......I have been trying to do weigh****chers. Today....forget it! It has been 6 weeks and I lost 11 1/2lbs the first week and only a total of 16 for the full 6 weeks! Tell me....does the urge to eat go away eventually??? I feel yet again, Like a miserable failure. My BS have gone down but....almost no weight loss! Please give me some hope...... I am sorry but this is getting me down. Can't blame it on PMS now. I had the hysterectomy. BBBOOOHHHOOO! I know, I know, Get over it! Tammy

Good Afternoon Everyone How's the workouts coming along? What goals have you set for yourself last week? Did you accomplish those goals? and what goals have you set for yourself this week? GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE ON REACHING YOUR SET GOALS AS WE ALL KNOW THAT WEIGHTLIFTING AND BODYBUILDING IS DIFFICULT AND TAKES LOTS OF DISCIPLINE!! BUT WE CAN DO THIS!! My Goals... I have been working on my UPPERBODY(Arms, Back, Shoulders) as this is the part that I feel needs the most work. I refuse to have any surgery done on my arms so I have gone with lifting HEAVIER weights to build the muscles up instead of just trying to TONE them. I have noticed a great difference in the way my upperbody looks as the muscles get bigger the skin is tightening!! http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL568/2501409/7638625/100309144.jpg Alicia~The Prettirst "DIVA" Kitty

it's a darn shame that I don't live closer! I would have moved my TV out and made my living room one honkin' gym! LOL glad you guys made out so good! Maybe we can come up and play sometime!!!! PPPPLLLEEEEAAAASSSEEE?? can we??? huh? HUH? HUH? I am a good suck up you know????? wouldn't you guys have a cow if I showed up with my whole clan of 7 kids and a hubby???? Just to play in your gym. Is there any hotels around where I could house my kids???? Glad you got an eliptical. I love mine. though lately I haven't used it. I have been walking instead! Tammy

YIPEE! WOW! I got an Eliptical machine!! Yesterday, Earl and I went to an Auction up at OSU. They are building a new recreation center on campus, demo'ing the old one and they were selling gym equipment that wasn't going to go to the new facility. It was unreal. The stuff was going so cheap it was making me ill!! This is fairly new equipment, things like a hack squat rack sold for 1$. Yep. ONE FREAKIN' DOLLAR. We were just sick. If we had a place to put it all we would have bought it all. A cable crossover machine (the big wall to wall kind) sold for 350$. Earl bought a multipurpose old ugly red calf raise dip chin looking heavy as hell monstrosity of a machine for 5$. That f*cker was HEAVY. We had to get it all out today. That was the bad part. Talk about a workout! It took 6 of us to get it out of the gym and into the truck. But, now I have my dream machine. I even got on it for a little bit today, even after all that gut wrenching, sweaty hard work I did. I was on it just a smilin'!!! I am going to see how getting on it before I go to work does. I love those things and with my knees healing up it's perfect. Happy Dance Happy Dance!! Did I tell you all I was going back to school too? Things are going really cool right now. I am excited. Got my eliptical, going back to school, geez, what more could a girl ask for? Hmmmmm....gimme a few I will think of something. Val