Kim,
It sounds like you had a fantastic day of food and exercise! That's the way to do it!

As for the allergies and your dog - it sounds like you probably hit the nail on the head with poision oak/ivy or something.

As for allergies though, that often takes time to build up in their system.
My dog woke up yelping in agony and could barely stand up one morning. I took her to our vet (the guy in the podcasts I sent you) thinking she blew out her knee cap or something. He took one look at her and said the problem is her back. After the xray he said that it looked as though she had been doing something that kept putting her in a pretzel position.

She had been itching at her stomach so badly, that we had put her in a cone. Being twisted up like that exacerbated the back problem.

Since we put her on whole foods (we feed the dogs cooked ground meat, ground fresh vegies and cottage cheese), she hasn't had a single allergy issue. It was like night and day!

ME TOO! Both parts are hard. I think maybe "staying that way" is going to be the real challenge. But I bet this forum will help, eh?

Great for you! Temptation is hard, I'm ok for the most part but come that time of the month....may as well wire my mouth shut! NO--just kidding! I do OK--better than when I wasn't dieting! A measly 128 lbs! That sounds so great! I know what you mean--when I was 15-16 and 130 lbs I was always like, "damn I wish I could be 120 again!" I should have just worked on maintaining. Oh well, our bodies are wonderful and can bounce back toi fitness at nearly any age! Thank goodness for that! Best wishes to you!

Hey Kim great on managing thru the day and not giving in to any temptation it gets even easier when you start seeing the results.
and you will get thin again! believe in that.

hugs, Lena

Thanks Lena for your support. I know it will get easier, but I have worked so hard for the past 3 weeks, I just would like to see a pants size reduction for once. I dont weigh in again until Monday, I HOPE I lost at least another 2 lbs this week. I've done so good on my calories all week, and my workouts. I did however miss the gym last night, but I'll be there this evening ready to rock and roll. thanks again!!
Kim

Thanks Ms Curves for your thoughts, your diary is very inspiring for me so keep it up.
Kim

I'm still trying to figure out this whole QUOTES thing, I want to put them all together, but I haven't quite figured that out. Thanks M2M for all your notes on the puppy subject, they are so useful and I can use any ideas I can get. Your dogs eat like kings,queens DANG!! Want to come over my house and feed my roudy bunch? Remember I live in the country I have 5 dogs total, 2 are indoor dogs and the other 3 are outdoor/indoor dogs, they are out during the day and stay in at night. They are ALL spoiled trust me. We are animal lovers all the way. But...... not sure if I could feed them like you do, that's awesome!! We feed them all Benefold, did I spell that right, probably not. LOL LOL Oh well, today is Friday the 13th and luckily I'm not superstitious, it's rainy and thundering outside, but as long as we do not have tornados I'll be pleased. Thanks again M2M, your a wonderful person!! Kim

Holy Moly Kim,
I wouldn't feed that many dogs this way either! LOL!!
I have two and they're tiny (a 4 pounder and a 6 pounder!)

LOL!

Hope your weekend goes well,

yeah, I do have a lot of dogs, but I only had ONE before I met my husband 5 years ago. I had my BABY "Buddy" he's and Apsa Lapsa, and he's always been my little lap dog, he's very loyal and attached, just like a kid. And then my hubby had 3 dogs and one of those dogs was pregnant, he kept one of those puppies and I took one to give Buddy someone to play with, well he got rid of the mother later on and kept the daddy of the puppies and an older dog he had for years before that. SOOOOO, when we finally combined households we ended up with my two and his three, instant family wouldn't you say?? OH and two teenage boys, he just had no idea what he was getting himself into did he?? HAHAHAAH He was a bachelor for many years, without any children. HAHAHAH HELLO!!!!! LOL LOL LOL Have a great weekend m2m
KLim

Okay, this is how bad I want this weight loss. Today my boss invited me and another coworker to lunch, On him of course. They all chose Chinese food. WHICH I LOVE!! I usually do a egg roll and fried rice. NOT TODAY, NOPE I ate A plate full of the following:

Cabbage
Onions
Broccolli
Green Beans- the real long ones
Mushrooms
and 2 pieces only of sesame chicken.
PLUS
WATER< WATER WATER!!

I'm amazed at myself. While everyone else was pigging out on all the good stuff I stuck to my guns and never caved. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!
OH, and they had icecream in front of me too, Oh boy did I want some of that.
The only down fall to all this that I can currently think of is ALL THESE ITEMS SPELL ONE THING!!!!

*G*A*S* LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My poor husband!! HAHAHAHAHAH
It's a good day!
Kim

Hey, Kim. Way to go on sticking with the veggies. I think it would be nearly impossible for me to resist Chinese food. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! Maybe next time I am faced with it I can use you as inspiration.

I hope you had a great day today. I am feeling SOOO much better, by the way. I'm a new woman, I tell ya!

Talk to you soon.

GREAT job Kim!!

You didn't stick to your guns - you stuck to your goals! There's no better gift to give yourself - beats an eggroll any day!

Good Job!!

And I got a chuckle out of the instant family! Too Funny

Kim, your weight is going to drop. Just keep doing what you're doing.

great for saying and for quotes, by every post click multi-quote this message, and when you come to the last one you also click multi-quote this message and also quote this message and they all appear. hope i explained that well lol

YEAH Your back, I'm so thrilled you have no idea. WELCOME BACK miss new women. I'll have to visit your thread to find out what's been going on.

Thanks M2M, I'm can't believe I did it. I'm still a little in shocked when I think about it.

Thanks Kelly!! I'm just plugging along and doing what I can do. I'm not going to give up this time. NOPE I'm NOT!! thanks for the encouragement!

Lena, PERFECT instructions, are you a teacher?? LOL Thanks so much my friend, hope your having a great weekend.!!!!