End of September meeting

We had a nice meeting tonight--lots of items were discussed. First, welcome to Lisa Morales! Ilene won the September contest with 100% days goal met! Wow! If you weren't at the meeting, please get $10. to me. I really don't like to be a money collector. If you didn't pay in September, maybe you could contribute $5. to the fun fund for that month. We're up to $55. by the way. We decided we should each determine our own goals for the month of October and then post them on this blog. We'll be making the Palisades hike on Oct. 22nd. We decided to postpone the Harriman cross country/snow-shoeing trip to January. Lisa is organizing a group to go to Time Out for Women on Nov. 19 and 20th. Contact her if you're interested. Some of us are planning a "I finally made my goal!" trip to the Park City outlet mall on Feb. 21st. Let me know if you're interested in that. We are also planning to go to Boise to see Wicked on Saturday, May 14, 2pm. If we can get a group of 20 or more, we can get our tickets now. Those who are interested need to decide in the next week or so, and Cherie will make the reservation. 50% of the price is due about 2 weeks after the reservation with the remainder due by Dec. 31st. The tickets are about $147/85/65/55. Those may not be the exact amounts--but something like that. If you know of anyone else who is interested, please have them call Cherie.

Well, we sound like a busy crew, but really, these activities are taking place over a period of 8 months. I wish everyone a very successful and healthy October. Who cares that there's Halloween candy everywhere?

Wednesday--almost the end of September

Here we are at the end of September already! I hope it has been a good month for everyone. If not, I hope October is even better! It'll be fun to get together tomorrow night . . 5:30 at Ilene's.

I met my goals today. See you tomorrow.

Two days in a row

I met my goals for two days in a row. That is big for me this month. I am up 3 pounds since mid-August but I can stop that now (otherwise I have no pants that fit). Hope you are meeting your goals. Who is the $ winner this month? Seems like Ilene, Kim and Heather have been doing well. Lisa Morales wants to join and will be at the meeting on Thurday.

love me some packers.....

Monday night football ya'll...go pack go! :) I met my goals today, well will have after I head to the gym here in a few minutes.

I admit it

OK I admit it I have had a terrible month when it comes to eating nutritionally. The only thing that has saved me from total disaster is that exercise is wonderful and I love it. Especially exercising outside. I am going to be brave tomorrow (it is too late today because I have to do it first thing in order to not have eaten anything) and weigh and measure and write down the bad news. Maybe this will get me to start over. Some of my jeans are getting tight (never a good sign) and I gave away my bigger size so I guess I had better get back on the program. Not only am I not in the running to win the $ this month but you should all make me pay more. Enough already. I will post tomorrow with the bad news since I know you guys are in my corner and will encourage me to do better. Congrats to those of you that are doing well. I hope to join your group. I did well for 6 months so I can certainly do it again. Venting feels good. Thanks.

Way to go Kim and Heather on the race. You guys (and the rest of you) are awesome.

Saturday

The day's not over, but I thought I'd go ahead and post. We had a fun race. It was great being a part of "Team Hope."

I've met my goals so far today, and I'm sure I'll do fine the rest of the evening.

I hope you're all having a great weekend--such beautiful weather!

24th already....

yea for Friday! I love,love,love weekends! Met goals today and am excited for the race in the morning.

First official day of fall

Hip Hip Hooray....Fall is my favorite season of the year. I didn't meet my goals today. We had Football, transportation of ill folk, school carnival, homework, reading, piano and it's 9:23 and my kids just got in bed and quiet frankly I am not heading to the gym now, I am going to breathe a little and perhaps read or something. Happy Fall Y'All!! :)

Goals, goals, goals.

I met my goals today for the first time in a long time. Now if I can hang on till the end of the day. Hope all of you had great days.

Tuesday the 21st

I met my goals today. How's everyone else doing? I'm no longer feeling the effects of Table Rock--time to plan another hike!

Better

I am doing better at meeting my goals. Why is eating right so hard?

Sunday football day and recovery day

Hola Friends!! I know that I am exhausted today~ guess everything is catching up to me, so I am relishing in the relaxation of football and reading a good book. I would say I met my goals today but I am enjoying some hostess donettes with my book, so I best say no on the nutrition goals for today. However tomorrow I am back on the atkins love. Hope everyone has a fantastic week!!
BTW what is Annette's address so I can forward my table rock pictures to her??

Saturday the 18th

We had a great time hiking Table Rock, and yes, we made it to the top! It was the perfect day and well worth the effort. I hope everyone is feeling okay today. I definitely found a few new leg muscles, but my feet survived just fine.

A few housekeeping items: I sent out emails awhile ago suggesting we change our meeting time. I need to apologize for that because I know we had already agreed to meet on the 30th at our last meeting, so I should have just left that alone! So, let's plan to meet on Sept. 30th at 5:30 at Ilene's. Please bring $10 for Sept if you haven't paid, $10 for October, and the number of days in September that your met your goals. Do we also want to report pounds lost during the month? Maybe that could be optional. Also, at our last meeting we agreed that we would give Cherie a written copy of our goals, so if you haven't done that yet, please bring it to the meeting. We'll be talking about our next regular outing, a possible October hike, and a possible BIG outing in May. Anything else?

Keep up the good work everyone! I've been wondering if we should open up a consignment store to get rid of all the clothes we're shrinking out of (just kidding).

Friday/Table Rock!

I guess the majority of our group was too busy hiking yesterday to post! I just thought I 'd put in a quick post for anyone who wants to report their Friday results.

Hey

Nice day. I met my exercise goals but not nutrition. Why is one easy and the other hard?

15th

If I don't post early I forget as the day gets busier. Good luck with all you have going on. Can't wait for Friday's hike. Love the weather and am going to do great today avoiding junk food. Best of luck to all the rest of you.

14th

Yea for today. I met my goals and feel grand. I started atkins again and today was easy.

Hike

Hey. I am still doing well with exercise but not nutrition. Chocolate has not been my friend. I have maintained my weight now for 4 months so I am happy about that but will have to do better to lose more.

I called the forest service and they said hiking table rock by Friday should be fine. They said the snow that arrived is mostly gone and it should be good weather. Let's be to my house just before 7 am and leave by 7. We will need good shoes, lunch, snacks, lots of water and clothes for all kinds of weather. If you have questions call me.

Yeah!

Looking forward to hiking on Friday

Sounds like table rock may be too snow covered to hike. I will check with the forest service tomorrow and see what they say. If we can't go there, we could do the wind caves or Palisades lakes. Any preference from the group.

We invited who ever was interested at R S today and it sounds like those that can go and want to are me, Kim, Heather, Elise, Julie Meldrum, Melanie Jacobson, Mary DeYoung and Annette? If you can think of any one else invite away.

I will let you know what I find out and we could make other plans if need be. Let me know if you have a preference of the others or a better idea.

I exercised well today but eating continues to be a problem for me. What is up? How are the rest of you doing? I need some inspiration.

Farners market

I love the farmer's market. I went and got peaches, corns, melon, whole grain bread, mushrooms, and other yummy stuff. Such fun on a beautiful day. I am meeting my goals so far today. Kathy I love your blog messages. Your sense of humor adds a lot. Ilene, so good to have you back and congratulations on doing so well. Thanks for all the rest also.

friday fun day

Hello friends! I met me goals today, I went out with friends tonight and had a blast and amazingly ate well and it felt gtreat.

Great day for the fair

I am heading to the fair in a minute for the concert tonight and dinner. Should be a good time in the rain. Wish me luck finding nutrition at the fair but maybe I will count today as a pass day. I met my exercise goals. Hope all of you are meeting all your goals. It is great to hear from the crowd.

Another windy Wednesday

I am doing well so far today. Hope you are too.

Tuesday

Congratulations Ilene for doing so well since the 1st. Sounds like the rest of us need to kick it up a bit. As for the empty nesting, as a old pro at that (four and a half years), it is great. After feeding and entertaining 12 to 18 people all weekend, my nest is a mess but oh so quiet again. It is great. Doing OK today. Hope I can hold on to the end.

Labor Day

I hope everyone has had a great long weekend!

I did meet my exercise goals today, but, sad to say, not my nutritional goals. As of today, I'm officially an empty-nester . . . don't know if that has anything to do with my lack of control! I'll definitely be back at it tomorrow.

How's it going?

Going well here in the crazy house. I have been feeding 16 or so people for the last few days through tomorrow. It is hard to be good when that is going on and also hard to get in exercise. Hope the rest of you are doing better than I am. Day two of poor eating and day one of poor exercise but Tuesday I will have my house and my life back. Did I mention how much fun I am having, because it is great. Hope your weekends are going well. Looking forward to posts from the new people.

Crazy

Having a crazy time at my house. Today I got a ton of exercise but ate junk. I feel good though because I have only blow it one day this month. Only 1 out of 4 is pretty good. Hope all of you are having a fun weekend.

Day 3 and start to a glorious weekend

Hello Friends!! What beautiful weather today and it's the start to a holiday weekend and big things at our house~ Aubrey is being baptised!! What a blessing to be alive and to have the gospel in our lives. What a blessing to have such awesome friends to get healthy with! I am blessed and happy. I met my goals today.

Second day

I met my goals today. Thankfully I was not eating everything like I did yesterday.

Start of phase 3 Yippee!!!

I did great yesterday and so far today. Yeah for September.