Trail Blazers and Path Takers

[TerriMM]

Hope you stay good through the weekend!! How's our little trouper doing?

[dazygyrl]

He's fine. Still waiting on his pee. it has to be a certain specific gravity (diluteness) before they can can give him the chemo.

[TerriMM]

Boy I bet you all will be so glad when this is over!

[TerriMM]

Good Morning Bud!
How was your weekend? How did Noah do?

I did a bit of back tracking, nothing special just too much good food. I almost stopped and went back to low carb, but I talked myself into hanging in and doing a Fat Fast starting today.

Have a great day!

[dazygyrl]

good morning!

noah's good. nothing out of the norm for his treatment. ONE.MORE.LEFT!!! june 22!

4 games this week, so deb, i should get a video of kyle pitching at one of them, i would think. wed i am running up to Mn to pick up the little girl. i was going to go up tues and come back thurs, but kyle had an add on game scheduled for tues and i didn't want to miss it. thurs mr noah turns 10! wow! time flies!

eating for me this weekend was so-so...could have been worse, but could always be better.

hope your FF does great things for you....remember, don't judge it till wed! how many days will you do your FF?

hugs all around!!

[TerriMM]

Originally Posted by dazygyrl

hope your FF does great things for you....remember, don't judge it till wed! how many days will you do your FF?

Thanks for the reminder. I'll totally hang on to that tomorrow! At this point at least four days. DH is traveling this week, so it will be easy. I go to sis's Monday for family lunch so will probably plan on doing another one next week, but to be determined. I keep going back and forth on how to allow myself space for a little indulgence or give myself the gift of not allowing lunch at her house to throw me off track yet again.

Looking forward the Kyle's video, I've been keeping DH up to date on his season. He'll really love seeing it too!

[dazygyrl]

yeah...trying to find this balance thing is taking some time. i have been doing better at allowing small amounts of carbs without causing me to go completely off the rails. so baby steps, right?

[TerriMM]

True that!

[privatediva]

Hi y'all. I'm really whooped but wanted to pop in and say hey. I can't wait to see a little pitching video! And I'm so pleased Noah's treatment went well. almost done...so awesome!

This week and next are the intensive at the studio, so I'm playing piano for four solid hours each day. My car air conditioner went out today and it was 97 degrees at the time. Thought I was gonna die. It made me really tired, so I'm gonna go to bed early tonight since we have to be back at the studio early in the morning. Glad everyone's doing well!

[TerriMM]

Morning All!
Crazy weather these days Deb. It snowed in California yesterday

First FF day 1138 calories, 86% fat down .60. Glad you reminded me to wait until the second day, Bud. Just what I'm clinging to today.

How's your day?

[dazygyrl]

down is good, but i bet you'll see a great drop tomorrow!

ummm, snow?? craziness!!

day is good...kyle pitched las night. love watching him. will get a video uploaded...but i gotta say, it's HARD to record baseball....if i try to get the pitcher and the batter, i have to be so far away that they look like ants. so i have a little of that and then just kyle pitching, but if i were to follow the ball with the camera, you'd all get motion sickness from having to whip the camera too and fro trying to watch it! lol...

hope it won't bore you to sleep.

he has another game tonight.

[dazygyrl]

okkkk....let's see if this works.

You Tube

[TerriMM]

When I click on it, it says this video is private.

[dazygyrl]

shoot....it plays when i click on it. i'll fix it.

[dazygyrl]

try it now....

[TerriMM]

Nope

[dazygyrl]

ahem...it helps if you save the changes...

*should* work now.

[privatediva]

Dang! That's a great looking motion. He stays cool and works his way through. Just outstanding

[TerriMM]

Well I can't get it to load. It might be my work computer, I'll try it at home

[TerriMM]

Good morning Bud!
The video totally loaded at home. That is really cool. Can't wait to show DH when he gets home.

Well three days of Fat Fast has netted me 3.6 pounds in three days so far. I think I'll do another day. After that I'm probably moving to P3. I'm considering doing a beef day as a conversion day, but haven't decided yet. You know me, I've got to make it as complicated and weird as possible I think perhaps I'm going to discover some crazy secret

How are you doing?

[TerriMM]

Hey Buddy Girl!

Where are you? You okay?

[dazygyrl]

hi, there....i'm sorry...i went to get ella on wed and got back yesterday then a game last night. just haven't been on here.

i'm fine....till i stepped on the scale this morning... i have to get this figured out.

especially since noah found out on wed that he was approved for his Make a Wish trip on an alaskan cruise!!! barring any booking problems, we'll go aug 3- aug 10.

kyle won his game last night...10 run ruled them. possible he may pitch tonight.

how are you?

[TerriMM]

That's awesome news!! All the way around

I'm doing okay. Had a good FF day yesterday, but bumped up .70. I think mainly because I went to bed too late. Getting the house all spiffy for DH's return. Calling yesterday LDW, too many things going the next week to do anything else.

[dazygyrl]

enjoy your P3!!

and enjoy your hubby's return!

[dazygyrl]

morning, bud! hope you have/had a fun reunion with dh....how long was he gone?

still VLC eating with no pellets? when does p3 eats start?

kyle pitched last night....he was bit off...walked a couple more guys than normal...but they beat them 19-0 so a short 4 inning game.

hope you have a great weekend!

[privatediva]

Carrie, that team needs to look into some different competition. Maybe sign up for a tournament or two with some travel teams where they get beat pretty good once or twice and have to learn how to keep their heads on straight when they come up against other kids who are as good as they are. There are usually a lot of tourneys around the 4th of July, at the end of the summer, and later...like Fall Ball time (usually the last one is a Halloween tourney). It's fun to win and win big...but it's even more fun to get your butt kicked and come back to win because you've figured out how to beat the real "players". It sounds to me like they (and their coaches) have what it takes to move up with regard to competition.

[dazygyrl]

yeah...i agree...this is supposed to be the tougher league. thing is, this is this coach's last year to coach as his kid, along with the rest of the 8th graders on the team, will go on to the high school team next summer...so not sure how aggressive he will get. there is one league tourney the last week in june.

[TerriMM]

Morning Bud!

Thursday was LDW - 128.7. Probably shot myself in the foot a little since it was a one day low. I had so much coming up this weekend and the first of the week, plus DH home just for the weekend; I needed to move to P3 to keep from crashing. I haven't decided if I'm calling it a break or sticking with P3 and actually converting to by the book Atkins. I would really like to get down to at least 125. Really considering the later. What are you considering?

This is DH's travel month. He'll be gone all week all month and home on weekends. So it's my time to get projects and heavy house cleaning done. Plus have dinners out with people I might normally only do lunch with. It's also my birthday month so I'll be doing some shopping. I primarily like to update my wardrobe with these opportunities these days.

Got to agree with Deb. Looks like Kyle is ready to hone his skills with some real competition.

Hope today is the start of a lovely weekend for you.

[privatediva]

So many memories! I'm cleaning the garage out today and am sending a Jugs soft toss net, Thunderstick, a load of wiffle balls, a pitching rubber, and a Personal Pitcher Hitting Machine (shoots small wiffle balls) home with one of the girls at church tomorrow. She is a great second baseman and it's time for me to move on. I'm not coaching anymore and don't have any players at home. Makes me a little sad/happy at the same time. Less dirt and sunburn in my life for sure. But I love the game.

Yay for basketball! Saw the court construction. That, of course, ended up being the big focus here after a time. But I do so love baseball/softball.

[dazygyrl]

funny you should ask....

i was reading daisyhair's thread over in the ML. and a poster there mentioned a woe. she gave a brief synopsis of it. the simplicity, common-senseicalness of it hit me like a ton of bricks....

i have been restricting something, in some way for the last 4.5 years and it has taken it's toll. physically, there is no reason for me to restrict anything (carbs b/c of blood sugar probs, for example....gluten...dairy....none it causes me problems...accept i AM now sensitive to mass quantities of carbs, but that's silly to do that). i just can't do it anymore...the restrictiveness has to stop. yet the weight has to go....for my mental sanity i need something that allows me to eat freely of all things with the added bonus of weight loss. i know this may sound silly to some reading, but i do think i have an element of food addiction due to years of obsessing about one thing or another....it has to stop.

in spite of the fact dh is completely happy with my appearance...evidenced by the constant attention, ahem... ... *I* need to be happy with me and i am just not. in jan i was at my low and felt GREAT. i'm 14 lbs over that and i can't take it anymore.

the buried little post i read in that thread i mentioned may just have changed my life... it's called the no-s diet. No S Diet: No snacks, sweets, seconds, except on days that start with S.

it's concepts are so simple that most people that read it will say, um yeah...duh....but *I* needed to read that site. *I* needed that frying pan up the side of the head that it really is THAT simple. i started with supper last night. and the mental freedom i already feel is astounding.

so go read and tell me what you think.