For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
It is another chilly but sunny morning here in S.C. I thank the Lord, it is warm in this house.
I got on the scale this morning and it registered 145.4, yayyyy! 
I'm fixing to be leaving to go tend to some business in town 
...be back a little later....
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Update: Took one of my other friends out to lunch today. We also did a little shopping at the thrift store. She found some things she liked and got and I bought a used NICE very heavy wood desk ( I think it's mahogany wood) for the new office I've been working on fixing up. Hubby and I went and got it after he got home from work. Can you believe it was reduced from $25.25 to $15.25 to just $10.25? Someone who didn't work at the thrift store helped Hubby and I gave him some money for helping which at first he seemed to refuse but then accepted it. (Some people who shop at thrift stores can use some extra money.) The desk had a lock and no key, so before we came home, we stopped by a security place and a set of new keys was made for the lock ( the middle drawer lock causes the other drawers to be locked, too, when it is closed or locked). The keys were only $10.00. We came home and our sweet STRONG neighbor friend came over and helped Hubby get the very heavy desk into the house. The front door had to come off as well as the office room door to get it in (it's quite large) and then Hubby and I put the doors back on together after we thanked our neighbor friend for helping Hubby get the desk off the back of Hubby's pickup truck and into the house and into the new office room and we told him we could finish putting the doors back up after he offered to stay to help with that, too. What a wonderful friend!
Est cals today: 1100 (i've been REAL, REAL GOOD)
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
It is a chilly morning here in S.C. but thank the Lord, it is warm in this house.
I started not to put my weight in this morning cause I didn't want to see the monthly average go up YET AGAIN...but I put the number in anyway. 146.4 isn't 140.0 goalweight, but it's still pretty okay, I think.
Calories were up a little yesterday, so I averaged est. 1850 calories for each day Saturday and Sunday which isn't too bad considering it was the weekend and Hubby and I ate out buffet both days.
Update: Took Friend out to lunch (the one who visited Mom while we were on vacation) today at Cracker Barrel. Then we went to a thrift store. After this, we went to a KK where we got donut holes. We had a very nice outing. After I took her home, I visited Mom a while, who was doing pretty well. and sat with Mom in her room and we talked and watched tv together...was a nice visit!
Est total cals today: 1450
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
I think you did pretty good considering the buffet. I would have such trouble eating as well as you do at them!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello Friends!
Hubby and I went to church this morning, then we went out to eat lunch. After this, Hubby and I visited Mom and she was sitting in her wheelchair in her nursing home room watching tv, not wanting to go mingle with the other residents in the dining room and wanting to be put in her bed. She couldn't get a CNA to take her to the bathroom, she told me, and her call button was tangled up laying on the floor out of Mom's reach and when I went to (family/friends are not allowed to help a resident move from their bed or wheelchair) get help for her, the CNA came, untangled Mom's out of reach call button on the floor, then left, saying she had to find another CNA to help her with Mom, and didn't come back. When Mom and I called on the call button for help again, the person at the call button end told Mom over Mom's room intercom to use the bathroom in her brief and that no one was available to take her to the bathroom. I objected, telling that person that Mom recently got well of a UTI and I was told to go talk to Mom's nurse, which I did after standing and waiting for the nurse to get off the phone. After telling Mom's nurse what was said, the nurse came to Mom's room and took Mom to the bathroom and scolded Mom for not going to the dining room with the other residents. Mom begged to go to her bed and wasn't allowed, being told she has to sit up some to not develop bed sores. Mom still objected. So stressful! 
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 58.8 lbs lost so far, only 6.2 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
Hubby and I went to the farmers market today where we bought lots of veggies...green string beans, yellow squash, red tomato, green cucumber, banana. We also went to the flea market. Hubby bought me some of my fav honey coated almonds/pecans and I ate a few and came home and put the rest up in the freezer to save for a later time when I'm at goalweight to have a little at a time in moderation. Frozen honey-coated almonds/pecans are not as big a temptation to me.
This afternoon, we visited Mom at the nursing home and I redid her closet, taking home her hot weather things and putting her cooler weather things in their place. She was so happy cause she'd forgotten about some things she had for cooler weather and seeing them again, she said happily, she felt like she was "in a store!" It was a job, converting her closet, but it is done now.
For supper, Hubby and I ate out at a buffet restaurant but I was a GOOD GIRL. I'm also back to my prevacation weight today, yayyyy!
This evening, he and I visited another couple we've known for years, who are some dear friends that we think a lot of and love very much, but they and we don't see each other very often.
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Today's food:
egg and cheese biscuit 370
honey-coated almonds/pecans 400
fried chicken, veggie salad, peaches, icing and ice cream 600
Total est. cals today: 1370
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
Well...I am disgusted. I pigged out last nite...why? Cause I was watching tv and I felt hungry and the snacks tasted good, so I just kept on eating til I felt real full. That is the silly reasons. So today I am up to 148.4. 
Time for ACTION!!! 
For motivation, I've orderd a pair of size 8 100% cotton Levis jeans from Ebay. They do not stretch. 
That should do the trick for motivation. I'm still fitting real well in my 8's. But if I keep gaining weight, I'll be saying goodbye to size 8. I just recently bought a pair of size 6 Levis jeans when Hubby and I were in the mountains on vacation. I was able to get them on (they do not stretch, either) and zip and fasten them but they were too snug to wear yet. I have fallen back into nitetime food binging. Uhhh! (Though I'd kicked that old habit but I began it again right before we left on vacation!)
Today is Hubby's birthday. Happy birthday, Honey! 
I am taking him out to his fav buffet restaurant (Golden Corral) tonite. This girl will be doing a big salad with not many sunflower seeds or dressing on the veggies. I may allow a little something else but I will be closely monitoring my calories.
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Today's menu:
bk: 2 turkey sausages and 1/2 cup grits, no marg, coffee w ff cr & splenda 200
lunch: fresh green string beans (cooked) and ground beef w tomato sauce 200
Hubby's Golden Corral birthday supper: 2 medium yeast rolls w a little honey butter, salad, a little turkey, icing and ice cream 800
Total est cals: 1200
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Hope you're all having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
Inky and Selina look almost the same, the only difference is that Selina has a white diamond mark on her chest....
last, but not least, thank you so much for the calorie count website. I shall be using it since it seems like it's a favorite around here. Have a great day!
Happy birthday to the hubby!
RYC: Oh yeah, I'll tell it all good or bad. It's going to be awhile though.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
Today has been finish getting things settled from vacation (putting things where they go, etc.) and the usual tidy house deal.
I've been getting calls from my friends since we've gotten back home, want me to do this and that... two of them who did not even visit Mom in the nursing home one time while we were away and didn't know I'd hired someone to do it and knows how important Mom is to me...guess what??? I'm so not in the mood. I DID bring them back gifts and took to them but I am so not in the mood for listening to talk about their world.
My friend who was really 'there' for me (and for Mom) while we were away is the one I plan on spending more time with...(the one who was willing to visit Mom every day for free but I insisted on paying her and finally got her to take the money before we left) and she even visited Mom an extra day over what I'd asked her to...she is the one I plan on having lunch with....after I get renewed energy to get out and about again.
Today's menu:
2 turkey sausages 120
2/3 cup grits w a little low cal marg 180
2 turkey sausages 120
2 diet breads 80
ground beef w tomato sauce, slaw w low cal mayo, tomato, cucumber 800
whole grain/cheddar cheese crackers 510
apple 80
mixed fruit 90
Total est cals: 1980
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Hope you're all having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
It is SOOOO good to be back home! Missed you, Friends!
Hubby and I had a wonderful time on our mountain vacation! We did a lot of hiking. There was one almost vertical hill he really had to help me get up. Hubby is very big and very strong!
As usual, I overpacked so much, there was hardly enough space in the back seat of the pickup truck to bring back what we bought while there. I could have very easily packed us 2 outfits each plus our usual personal stuff and fitted it all in one suitcase and that would have done us easily, including the 3rd outfit we wore to the mountains! Instead, I packed a duffle bag full of snacks (not needed), and a medium suitcase for Hubby's things and another one for my things and a vanity case for personals, thinking I was doing well...NOT!/ We were lugging that stuff up and down steep stairs 3 floors up at one resort that had no elevator.
But...we did have a wonderful time. The reds, yellows, oranges, burgundies, and golds in the mountains were very bright and vivid and exhilarating to be in! We stayed at a waterfront room surrounded by mountains with the best view at two different locations!
As for weight...I actually gained only one pound while we were gone 6 days and 6 nights on our vacation, which I think is just fine. I averaged about 2500 calories per day which was very much needed for the amount of hiking Hubby and I did, which was a lot. My size 8 clothes fit me very well, which I happily wore, and still do. I also bought a pair of size 6 Levis jeans while in the mountains, which though snug, I can get them on and fasten them and they are 100% cotton, no stretch!
I thank our DD webmaster for all he went through in getting this site back up and going again as well as his maintaining this site, as well as I know you ladies thank him as well. It doesn't look like an easy job to keep up with and he doesn't even charge us, either! What a wonderful person to do that for us! Thank you, DD webmaster!
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Hope you're all having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
Have a good day!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
I stayed up very late last nite, watching the first Chile miners come up after being trapped for over 2 months. They are still being rescued. I thank the Lord for their rescue. Here is a link if you want to watch their rescue live over the internet: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/watch-live-video-6046305?tab=9482931§ion=6087493&playlist=&page=1
After clicking on the above, you have to scroll down the page to 'watch live event' and click on that and then wait during a little commercial before viewing it.
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Hubby told me this morning he wants me to have the biggest suitcases packed so he can load his truck by Friday afternoon so he doesn't have to do it Saturday morning before we leave. I've come a LONG WAY in packing for vacations. When we first went on a vacation close to 20 years ago, I think I packed '9' trunks and large suitcases that we took to stay 9 days at the beach. No, that didn't include the kitchen sink, hahahaha! Needless to say we didn't use most of it and there was NO ELEVATOR where we stayed (and lugged that stuff up 3 floors, I think it was). 
Then as the years went by, I got better about how much I packed for us to carry and got it down to about half of that (hahaha) for a trip we took to Kentucky in 2004 (no elevator where we stayed). The largest suitcase was so stuffed, the handle broke off of it! We had to go to a store to find a replacement suitcase (expensive) to put the stuff in it, that was in the broken-handle suitcase. This time I am going to 'TRY' to limit the packing to 1 medium suitcase each, a small suitcase or duffle bag (gotta have for snacks, etc.), and a vanity case (shampoo, toothpaste, other personal items,etc.). And I may take my laptop, too. So, between now and tomorrow, I've got to bake my Daughter her birthday cake (her birthday is Friday) and decide what to give her for her birthday and get that taken care of, and also between now and Friday afternoon, I've got to get the packing done to go on vacation and between now and Friday, I've got to tell Mom we are going on vacation!
Update: Silly me wasn't looking where I was going when I was hurriedly walking from the mailbox back to the house a little while ago, and tripped over a tree root and went flying through the air. Had a hard landing and now taking aspirin for back, hip, and leg pain (skinned up my knee and hurt my hand, too)...did I tell you we are fixing to be hiking in the mountains????
Update again: Finished baking birthday cake (4 layer pineapple) for Daughter. Got her card and gift (money) ready to give to her Friday (her birthday). Now to pack...
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Today's food:
2 coffees w creamer and splenda, 1/2 cupful grits w low cal marg, and 1 microwaved egg 200
whole wheat turkey sub s/w w lots veggies 300
bbq lf potato chips 140
bk chocolate ice cream sundae 400
another bk chocolate ice cream sundae 400
small pineapple cupcake (made Hubby a big pineapple cupcake) 100
2 diet breads, chicken salad 160
popcorn 100
1/2 cupful scuppernong grapes 50
total est cals: 1850
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
Before lasik I couldn't see a thing, unless I wore contacts or glasses. After the surgery I had 20/20 vision for 10 years, Now I have 20/25 with both eyes open. When I close one, the right eye is 20/40 and the other one is better... I heard that it is possible to have another lasik if the first didn't work so well. Mine was perfect the first time around.
Enjoy your vacation!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
Sitting here, watching 'Christmas Shoppe' on QVC channel. Such pretty Christmas lights and trees!
My weight is up and although I know it is mostly high-sodium, I decided to put it in anyway. I'm hoping to stay between goal 140.0 and 145.0 this week anyway, since planning on leaving on vacation with Hubby Saturday morning, Lord willing. I hired someone to sit with Mom for about an hour in the afternoons while we are away. She is a good friend and didn't want to take any money for helping me but I insisted as she is a widow with 3 children she has been raising as a single Mom after her Hubby passed a couple or so years ago and Christmas is coming up soon, too and I know she can use the money. So she finally said okay she would let me pay her when I told her I insisted. She is a very sweet person and Mom knows and likes her and will be comfortable with her spending time with her.
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Hubby and I are excitedly 'counting down the days' til we leave! (Heading for the mountains!)
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I got over half of the work done in the back room yesterday (converting it from a storage room to an office room) and hope to finish it today! Yayyyy!
Update: Regarding above statement....Got the room and the matching closet to the room FINISHED! YAYYY! (Now to find a desk for that room.) No more using that room for storage. Cleaned it out real good and vacumned it and have stuff to donate to the thrift store in the back of my vehicle. Plenty of space to make it into a nice office now.
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Evening update: Visited Mom this afternoon. I took her a baked sweet potato with cinnamon, a little sugar, and a very little low cal margerine on it and she ate it and enjoyed it. Had a nice, talkative long visit almost 2 hours. She said she didn't want to eat all of her potato salad that was on her plate at supper and was going to leave some of it and said of the remainder of the portion she was not going to eat, "That's probably 1/8 of a pound" (of a gain that she could avoid if she didn't eat it, hahaha!)
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Today's food:
2 coffees w creamer and splenda, 1 diet bread toast w low cal marg 100
1/2 homemade hamburger 200
fish s/w 400
bk chocolate ice cream sundae 400
cup of scuppernong grapes 100
baked cinnamon apple 100
butterscotch candies 100
whole grain cheddar cheese crackers 180
Today's total est cals: 1580
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends!
I'm up a little over newest 'low' but I think it is mostly due to high-sodium foods over the weekend so will leave it be for now. I was doing SO WELL last nite and NOT HUNGRY around 6 pm so was planning on no supper when I decided to look at a channel on tv that had food on it...why did I do that???? I got hungry and ended up OVEREATING!
This week will be getting ready for Daughter's birthday (baking her birthday cake and getting her gift ready to give to her on Friday) as well as an outing she has invited me to tomorrow in the park spending time together, talking and eating cheeseburgers she is going to bring. Also packing for Hubby's and my upcoming (Lord willing) vacation! ...AND trying to figure out when will be the 'BEST' time to tell Mom we are going to be gone on vacation for about a week or so! There is NO best time to tell her that! She usually does NOT NOT NOT take it well and I just hope I don't let what she says upset me like I've done before (and came back early to be there for her cause I was so worried about her and no one would help me by filling in for me while we were gone and I didn't spend much time with Hubby)! If I tell her too early, she may act okay a couple days and then the nearer it gets time for us to leave, completely change her attitude to ANGER!...(Then will come the guilt trip). She does NOT like for me to leave her or be away from her for days or not be available all hours. If you have family members that help you in taking care of or even spending time with your parents, you are VERY BLESSED!!! My family ALL have EXCUSES why they can't help me with Mom! Maybe I can find someone reliable to hire to sit with Mom an hour or 2 a day... That would help her feel better I think and me as well! Also, I'm trying to finish clearing out a back room that has been used for storage so it can be used for an office room instead. I am going to try to stay away from any unnecessary shopping this week...so much for shopping therapy!
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Today's food:
coffee w creamer and splenda 10
sandwich relish sandwich w 2 tbs relish, 2 white breads 280
homemade w 2 white breads, ketchip, mustard, hamburger 350
baked 'french fries' 100
baked 'french fries' again 100
3 chicken viennas 120
1 bread 70
ear of corn (microwaved w a little salt on it only) 200
cupful scuppernong grapes 100
Total est cals: 1330
UPDATE: Why?????? I just finished off the jar of sunflower seeds, proving to myself that I can NOT have any trigger foods in the house after all! 500 extra calories...bringing today's total to 1830! I'll just name it Stress...yeah right...it was stress...yeah, like it is EVERY DAY almost and I don't have mini-binges every day!
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
As far as food shows, I have one I love - No Reservations on the Travel Channel. The ONLY time I will watch it is during my workout! My mouth gets watering sometimes but I know I'm working out and that food is off limits during that time. I don't think I'd be able to watch it at night!
I hear you with the food shows. I love them and sometimes it is no good. Yesterday I watched cupcake wars and it made me want sweets or baked goods like nobody's business. I was lucky I didn't have any in the house!
I hope your mom will not get too upset this time around, you deserve a vacation! We all do!
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LOL, I love the bird on the scale. Must be the Xmas turkey, poor dude... :) Congrats on the loss! How was Halloween? Tricks or treats? :)
just42day on 11/02/2010:
You're doing so well! Good for you! :)
legcramps on 11/02/2010:
Have a good day!
chidogs on 11/02/2010:
Good for you! Hope your day is a grand one.
Soon2BThin on 11/02/2010:
Good to see you're doing well! I will go read some of your past entries to catch up. Hope you're having a great day!
V on 11/02/2010:
Don't look now we are the same exact weigh almost!!!! LOl It would be a hoot if we get to 140 the same day? Gotta workout now talk to you later :)
moogy on 11/02/2010:
Thank you for the support and love Maria, well done with the loss.
V on 11/02/2010:
very nice find Maria!!! Yes we will keep rowing along together!
Sofia on 11/02/2010:
That's a really nice desk, what a find! I love thrift stores, especially the ones close to the really nice neighborhoods where the rich people like to donate.
selina on 11/03/2010:
What a beautiful desk you got! Congrats!
Congrats on being good, too! Yay! Have a great day!