Hump Day the PMA Way

Hello Folks! We haven't done these in a while and I think it's time to start pouring some life back into this board! Any great things happening to you lately? Any mediocre things happening? Tell me what's going on with you: P - positive M - mental A - Attitude 1. I bought my son a tallis yesterday and that means he will be bar mitzvah'd in style 2. We finally got the boy his clothes for his own bar mitzvah, he was the last one and he's got everything from shoes on up, he needs underwear only and that is it 3. I am going to join weigh****chers on Thursday and hope the weekly accountabilty brings me closer to goal. I have 15lbs until i reach the surgeons goal and that's where I want to be by my 2 year anniversary 4. I am cleaning out the papers in my house and I am finding out what a pack rat i've been and I dislike that about myself. ANDI

Hi Andi! Great job for wanting to join Weigh****chers! I belong to TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) which is very similar to Weigh****chers, only cheaper! I love having the accountability of weighing in each week and have support from others. I love it! Today I am taking a class at my gym called Barriers to Body Change ... it's supposed to help you deal with what to eat when you're exercising and how to make the most of your exercise routine. It's just a one night class but I'm hoping it will give me some inspiration or something! I'm also making my husband take the class with me so hopefully he'll get motivated! Ha, ha! Deanna

how did tonights class go, i'm dying to hear about so squeal piglet. ANDI

Thanks Andi I really need this lately, but especially today: 1. I managed to keep my cool and not respond in a way that I would have later regretted to one of my sisters behaviour and words...(it's a long story!) 2. I managed to remain my own woman and not revert to the 'youngest sister' syndrome 3. I plan on having an early night 4. I am laying old ghosts from my Dad's and my past relationship to rest.

i'm so thrilled that you managed to avoid saying and behaving in a manner that would be unbecomming to you. I'm having a tough time at work lately and I'm reacting through food and that's got to stop. Tomorrow I am joining weigh****cher's and in a way it's almost a relief. ANDI

As you know I've been throwing the idea of joining a slimming club around for weeks now. The thing that scares me is that I'm not losing now, but it's only me and you guys that know. If I join, then I'll have that shame to add to it

That's where your thinking has gone awry....you feel it as shame, I see it as one more path to choose! I'm not losing now, as a matter of fact i'm gaining and losing the same 3lbs each and every week! What i'd like is an eating plan that works for me. I can't go without carbs completely, it just isn't my norm but i'd like to learn to incorporate healthy carbs for brain function. What i'd like to do is have a team cheering me on to victory like we used to do for one another at the beginning of this journey. Now this board feels more like individual floating islands as opposed to everyone brought together by common threads. Hugs, ANDI

You are right of course - it isn't shame really. I should be proud of my achievment getting this far... I too miss the support and cheer leaders we used to have on this board, but I have to accept that people have moved on and our journeys are no longer similar.