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Karla, one good thing about being a Military Wife... all those years of moving from Post to POST... you can;t collect too much in 3 or 4 years. PLUS, I never painted a house more than once.... we'd just wait and MOVE... LOL Now we've been here in the BEACH since 2000 so you can imagine I have CRAP to throw out now...

Well Phyl, it is NICE to have a hobby that`s portable!! Good for yu $77 bucks is nothing.... try buying ernough material for a quilt... then sit back and watch EARL have a STROKE...LOL Sat and watched a movie with DH tonight.., first time we`ve talked for 3 days. He`s had the GI Flu... nasty! Coming out both ends... you get the idea!! Anyways, I've been spraying LYSOL around the house like a wildwoman.. so far I havn't come down with it. Inlaws and Outlaws coming for din's on Sunday...Luckily my cousin volunteered to bring dessert, so I won't have to tempt myself with that:blink: I am doing a bird, mashed tatoes, veggies, gravy, stuffing, cranberries.. yummmmm Karla, the house deal is all coming together... it will be fine.. ONE week today !!! YEAH you can hang in that long:thumbup: Janet; the contacts when yu hold them on your finger tip will have an edge thats concave, not flat... it gets easier to tell if they are inside out or not... plus you can 'feel' the difference if you put them into your eye... You'll want to take them out right away, just won't feel right... Has anyone heard from Stephanie yet? since M's been home??? :thumbup:

Good for you getting new contacts.. yeah the bifocals can be tricky but you`ll get it right, keep going back for those FREE trial pair LOL FOOD, well I`be been teaching a friend to SEW she`s on her 1st quilt... so I`vw been very busy. I finished the PINK quilt, working on the BLUE/YELLOW quilt (last summer) and made a new bABY quilt... still sewing. Had casserole for supper last night, eating it again tonight!!!< Been having some WINE though...eeek:biggrin: Happy Easter everyone!!! Good Friday, and my WALMART is closed :thumbup: I need some batting:redface:

Hi Girls, not MIA just sewing up a storm... gottta get one sandwiched to take on the road with me to quilt. here are two views of it... Baby Quilt I started this one yesterday aft. worked sewing the blocks until 12:30 a.m. then got up today and started putting it into rows. They my GF came over to show me her new machine... she suggested the blue border... so now I have to dig around find batting the correct size and sandwich the sucker.:thumbup: Oh yeah, 55` X 55`` so a crib size, but seems big to me..???

Stress Eating: Is Food Your Sedative? Dos and Don’ts for Taking Control of Emotional Overeating Do you turn to overeating, binge eating, or constant nibbling as a way to calm yourself or cope with stress? This is one of the most common forms of emotional eating, and it’s a situation where many busy women living high-stress lives feel at a loss. I often hear from women who know that eating to calm themselves is contributing to struggles with weight, but they aren’t sure what else to do in situations where they feel anxious, overwhelmed, and usually time crunched. Sound familiar? If so, here are three changes you can start making today to start taking control of your eating—and to actually start creating more of a sense of peace and calm in your life. 1. Don’t use food as a stress reliever. It doesn’t work—at least in the big picture. Many women may feel calmer and more relaxed immediately after indulging. Food may also temporarily distract you from the situation at hand. Unfortunately, the satisfaction is usually short lived. Guilt and self-blame for overeating, or for food choices made in stressed out moments, can result in a vicious cycle of more emotional eating and stress. However, the deeper issue is that using food to cope with emotions of any kind is only a temporary fix. It’s a band aid that doesn’t address or resolve the real issue. Without better strategies, life stays the way it is, and you keep needing band aids—usually on a more and more frequent basis. 2. Don’t multitask while eating. This is so tempting to do—especially when you are busy—but multitasking while we eat prevents us from being fully aware. This means that it’s easy to eat for reasons that aren’t really physical hunger—without even fully registering that this is the choice you are making. People who eat mindfully (meaning they are fully present and not distracted by other tasks) eat less. They taste their food and are more likely to be aware of how much they are eating. If you give your meals and snacks your full attention, you are also more likely to catch those instances when you are eating to try to calm yourself rather than eating for fuel. 3. Don’t eat on the run. Practice slowing down. If you can’t make the time to feed yourself, something is seriously out of balance. Sure, from time to time, life happens, but if you are feeling that it’s too hard to stop and eat on a regular basis, than this problem is one that needs to be addressed. The act of stopping, focusing, and putting your food on a plate, may actually be the first step you need to take in reversing the cycle of stress and overwhelm. Are you overeating to calm yourself? Three easy ways to start fixing the problem Now it’s time to fill in the gaps. Here are three things to start doing that will help you create more peace with your eating and with your life. 1. Do get into the habit of asking yourself how you are feeling before you eat. Create a ritual of checking in with yourself before you reach for a snack, stop by the vending machine, or serve up your plate. Ask yourself both whether you are physically hungry, and what you are feeling emotionally. Don’t worry if you don’t always know the answers. Creating the habit of checking in with yourself and paying attention to your emotions is an important first step. 2. Do create a list of other calming strategies you can start to experiment with. When you aren’t in the midst of a stressful situation, brainstorm some quick, easy ways you might try calming or soothing yourself. Write them down and keep your list somewhere where it is easy to access. Not all your solutions will work in every situation, but that’s okay. You are creating a list of ideas to try. Some solutions others have tried: a few minutes of deep breathing, a walk around the block or even the office, changing tasks, a bath or shower, calling a friend, putting on some music, yoga or stretching, or making a cup of tea. 3. Do give yourself permission for this not to go perfectly and tweak and adjust as you go. The goal is to increase your control and you will do that as you become more aware of the reasons and times that you overeat and other strategies that help you make different choices. Don’t focus on making “perfect” changes, focus on learning about yourself and identifying changes that work for you, your preferences and your life. WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEBSITE? Please do! Feel free to reprint on your own website, newsletter, blog or message boards as long as you include the following: Copyright © 2010 Melissa McCreery, PhD. Are you a smart, busy woman struggling with emotional eating, overeating, and balancing work and life? 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happy happy Birthday Karla Cramer!!!and many more happy years in the future... (with US Lucky 7`s of course LOL) Love you more than BETTER

Got the RV out from under its winter cover and put the battery in... Vrooommm... it started right up. THen I vaccumed all the dead flies and ladybugs out of it.. WHere they come from I don't know!!! This aft DH has a Gig in town, at a nice bar/grill house from 5 - 9 p.m. so that's great it won't be a late, late night. Several carloads of friends are coming so that should be FUN! Tomorrow I am going to the CITY to see the "Jersey Boys" in concert, havinglunch with 2 GF's so that should be a fun day too. Well, now off to do some hand quilting, I am almost finished this Ugly Pink quilt... Stephanie, have fun with your popping adventure.. sounds like fun, how do you keep from eating it all though??? I have gotten HOOKED on kettle corn.. OMword I eat a bag everynight practically. Phyl, hope your dizxziness is under control... maybe you should switch to TEQUILA!!!! The brim on that big sombrero will break your falls!!! LOL Where is KARI??? still in FLA? Denise, give GDH a big fat KISS from all of us for a speedy recovery. Karla, have a great weekend. Next week will be theraputic for you. I know how much you like digging in the dirt!! er' SOIL Janet; Ya it was quite an experiance - 6 yr olds. Peter thought it was good G.I.T. for me (grandma in training) hee,hee... next one I'll do is a cooking class for ADULTS.. that will be easier

Hi Gang; Well you won't guess what i was doing today... My next door neighbor is the Community Coordinator for our BIG Grocery store in town. She does cooking demos; and birthday parties for kids etc.... she asked me to help her as a VENDOR and I said sure, its 4 hours of work. Well to day was TRIAL by fire... 6 yr old birthday party for 14 kids... Oh my... it was Mrs Doubtfire in training... Are kids ever spoiled little brats!!!! Now, not all were bad. The b-day boy was Autistic and so that was a wild -card. Cause we didn't know how affected he was .. turns out he was pretty high functioning and was more behaved than most!!! We got them to make their own chefs hat, put aprons on them (I don't want to wear a STUPID apron!!!) Oh yeah little Billy.. we then NO pizza for YOU:mad2: Then they MADE their own pizzas, cut the cheese added teh pepperoni... into the oven... then they made Fruit Shishkabobs... I was shocked to see how many kids didn't like banana!!! They chopped up their fruit and didn't scqurir each other... YEAH!!! Then we had CAKES already baked and cooled so we gave them each a bucket of ICING and toppings and they decorated their own cake, got to take it home with them> THEN there was the REAL cake red and black icinge cause thats what little Erin wanted... they ate that and then the RUnning a round the room like VERMINE started.... :tt1: Then the presents got opened and they were gone .... yeah only 2 bathroom breaks ... it was kinda fun, but shocking too.. the MANNERS were lacking!

I agree , I`d take the adaughters puter too... I feel for Karla though, I once dumped my coffee into my WORK laptop computer... the IT guys were not impressed with me... but somehow they fixed it and SAVED my ass. I didn`t have to tell my bosses....lucky :biggrin: Petie just got home, so I`m gonna go to bed Night night, and sleep tight!

I picked up our TripTik from CAA the other day... wow is it ever detailed... I only hope I can read it AND see road signs. LOL Janet, I was dying to deviate from my FOOD PLAN tonight. I was even going to take myself out to the movies so that I could eat JUNK in the dark.... but I didn`t go Put in a movie at home, and ate 3 bags of popcorn!!! and 2 protien bars"!!!! havn`t tallied up the cals yet. But I know I coulda done more damage if I`d gone out. I just felt weird today. Did lots of raking in the yard, trying to get all the leaves out of the beds. At least the beds that are not still covered in ICE!!!! CALORIES-CARBS-FAT-PROTEIN1,829-248-69-74 My back ached, my knees ached and my hips ached...???? The weather changed to COLD suddenly so maybe that`s it...

So, you guys are taking bets ehÉÉÉ??? I laughed when I read that. For sure I think we`ll want more space, but first we need to ENJOY the experience of traveling together!!!! I told DH he`d better bring 1 of his guitars or he`ll go bonkers for 5 wks without... hummm do you think I`ll have room for a quilt??? :Banane20: Oh o.k. so now we;re really gonna be full. All vehicles go in for tuneups whatever next week. Its auto mechanical heaven for somebody$$$$$

I think I'll give up useing Computers altogether!!! I bought a "Galaxy of Games 50,000" at Walmart tonight Cd thingy... You'd think this would be simple - DRAT!!! I've tried to install it twice, they ask all kinds of info on the registration... What ever happenee to sticking it in and playing with it!!! I am so ticked... now I'll have to shrink and ask Pete to plug it all in for me... But that won't be until tomorrow, as he's gone to band practice. thats why I bought the damn game, so I'd have something to do besides EAT when he is out... ARGH!!:Banane20: :huggie: :Banane20:

I bet everything with Michael will turn out just fine. Being away from his family all this time will make him appreciate what he has more. He's probably done a lot of growing up too. What happened to the talk about Jeff getting banded or the sleeve????

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Oh Phyl, you are too funny.... I think you`d be cute as hell drunk!!! Wish Id been there to see it firsthand. Perhaps, you`ll succumb again in July???

ALORIESCARBSFATPROTEIN974 Food today pretty good, just finished watchinhg movie with DH... kind of gorry.... Iraq thing with blowup guys detonating IED`s it was very grafic... hope I don`t have bad dreams tonight. Actually, tummy didn`t feel too good today. So I didn`t really eat a whole lot. Went shopping to GNC and got that BANANA flavored protien shake stuff... had it at lunch.. pretty tasty . I think I`ll like the change from chocolate all the time. Freezing here again today, so much for the nice balmy spring weather. Tomorrow, I start back to work - 2 shifts per week - so we`ll see how that goes with the `pitbull``... wish me luck!

Nice to hear back from you Brandy. 10 lbs is doable, just stick with us here, be accountable and it`ll be off in a month... Seriously, do`nt go away again:biggrin:

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Auh=oh, I did it... hopefully I havn't started WORLD WAR 3 with my family. I had a skype call from my Bro and SIL yesterday... I could NOT beleive how overweight and unhealthy looking my Brother was!!!! It was shocking. He kept saying "How good you look Sis" and I said thanks and YOU can do it too. So today, I sent him a link to Sparkpeople.com and told him about my Lapband.. I had NOT shared this info with him previously as we have not had the 'Closest" of relationships in the past 7 years... Although, it has warmed considerably in the last year... so we'll see if I've planted a 'seed'....

Great news on the Cancelled Furlough day... that is money in the bank!! WHooo-hoo I wouldn;t appologize about the thrown out cookies, just replace them with a note "ENJOY, love Janet"... that will suffice.:laugh: Just got back from the city, went down to visit the kids... we watched a movie and then went to my FAVORITE Japaneese restaurant ICHIBAN... I had my usual salmon sashimi and brown rice... OMG it was so good... I almost make an audible 'groan' when I am eating it - yup its THAT good...:smile:

O.k. then talk at you later babe:lol:

Karla, you lucky bird, getting to hang with Stephanie... give her big kisses from us all... hey why not skype with her later on?? Janet, gym and Uncle visit - oh you will be busy for sure.. enjoyed meetng your fur babies the other night. so cute Phyl, you and Earl rock on... hee,hee,hee you WANT him on another team don`t you!!! It is a great comfort though to know you are prepared for anything. The way my DH hoards food in the freezer I`m sure we`d eat well for a week or two, then break into the canned goods... but we DO need a couple of cses of bottled water just in case. DH is off to band rehersal tonight, so I`m sewing up a storm... I`ll skype my blocks later on for sure. I emailed Denise too to see if we can get her on skype as well. Food good today, still at 177 and that`s good.. on track for 169... yippee:rolleyes2:

o.k. where the heck is everybody... Did someone organize a Whine and CHeese party and not invite me????

Linda; Is this the store that Nicole is thinking of??? The Dutch Shoppe The Dutch Shoppe has locations in both Sarnia and Chatham. The shoppe carries Dutch specialty products and gifts including gourmet smoked cheese, Belgian truffles and Dutch salted licorice. Online shopping is also available from their website. The Dutch Shoppe 850 Colborne St. Sarnia, Ontario N7T 5Y3 519-344-1316 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 519-344-1316 end_of_the_skype_highlighting FOOD TODAY CALORIES-CARBS-FAT-PROTEIN1,051-88-46-52

I am so excited, just talked to Linda on SKYPE... way cool and I got to say hello to MEL, Nicole and Andy her son... it was so fun... and too think in a month I;ll be able to see them all in person.. I have to remember to Buy some GOUDA cheese for Nicole, at the dutch cheese store in Sarnia before I cross the border into Michigan...,. cbl