You might be asking your self, what could this dirty blonde, blue eyed beauty of done that is so bad. LOL hahahahaha okay did you guys like the way I described myself. Okay maybe I'm not a beauty, but darn I feel like one. So  that is all that matters. LOL

 

Okay first off I love pogo games, I live in that place when I'm not working or working out. So last night I go into my regular solataire game, and no one is around, but dummy names. So I am thinking, hummmm everyone has been taken away except me. But ha I go in for the games, not the socialization. hehehe yea right! So I left and decided to try another game, so I saw Bingo. Hummm this could be fun. So I went and checked out on how to play and picked a room and OH MY GOSH! I loved it, I loved it so much that I looked at the clock and it was 12:30 am, YIKES! Mark gets home about 1:15 am and if he catches me playing games and not sleeping, I will be in deep doo doo. So I went to bed, but was so excited about how much fun it was, that  I could not go to sleep. Well Mark got home, and I played possum and acting like I was asleep, so he finally got his shower and got to bed about 2:00 am and I finally drifted off to sleep. But let me tell you today, I set the alarm for 6:30 last nite instead of the 5:00 alarm. So I thought okay a extra 1 1/2 might help. Well No I'm in a daze here today. I'm not sure if I'm working or just sitting here, am I really writing this. Hello Terry are you there. LOL Oh man I just quack myself up when I'm tired. But I don't regret it, No I don't regret it at all. It was so much fun! Ha we all need fun sometimes in our lives.

 

Okay I'm going to go now, I am actually doing another job, plus mine this week. We have a vacation worker this week, and of course it was my old job, so you know who gets to do it when she is gone. ME mE mE mE

 

Bye everyone

 

Have a great day

 

Hugs, Terry

Hello Hello Echo Echo is anyone out there in loser land?

 

wow I miss all of you guys. Come back and lets play. LOL

 

Hope everyone is having a awesome day or evening now.

 

Hugs, Terry

Oh wow isn't today just the most beautiful day you have ever seen.

 

I have had an awesome day, I was determined when I went to bed last night, set the alarm for 5:00 am, and said out loud so Mark and Buster both knew that I was determined to do good. I told them and any thing else that was in the house, that when I wake up in the morning that everything that has consumed me these last 2 weeks, will be gone and I am going to do right, for myself and for who ever else gives a damn about me. So wooohooo when I woke up this morning, I felt like a million dollars. I worked out for a hour and 1/2 and darn I felt wonderful. My food has been like Wow! I'm going to make this thing one day at a time. I'm positive that I am going to make it. I love who I am and who I'm becoming.

 

Let's hear it for all of us that have not given up on ourselves or each other. We all are here to support each other, even during the hard times. You guys are beautiful, each and everyone of you!

 

Hugs, Terry

Mark lost another 2 lbs. Wooooooohoooo Yippie! I'm so excited for him. Looks like his food is getting as good as his exercise is. Well I lost the 2 lbs I showed on the scale from last week. My exercise is awesome, I feel awesome and have had numerous people that have not seen me in a while have a shocked look and a response of Oh Wow you look awesome. But my food literaly sucks totally. I know that I will never lose weight and will continue to go up and down with the same weight if I don't get this eating under control. Nothing satisfys me, not even when I eat crappy. I'm not hungry and I eat anyways. So this week I will not eat junk, I will make sure that everything is out of the house before Monday morning.

 

Mark and I will be leaving on Saturday morning to head to Charleston SC, I will be attending Summer School of Gerontology for a 1 day class, can't take sitting in class for a whole week that I have done for the past 6 years. I will still receive work credit for the 1 day class. So we will have Sunday to enjoy Charleston and get in plenty of exercise with walking down town. We will be returning back on Tuesday. Mark is really excitied to get a way for a couple of days. This will be vacation for him. I also wanted to share that we continued to keep money in our jar that we made to go on the cruise. Even if we are unable to attend the awesome cruise vacation that so many are going on. Anywho, we counted the money and we have saved $549.00 in our jar. Isn't that awesome! So we plan on having some fun in Charleston. Also hope to bring some back to pay some bills with. LOL

 

I also ask that everyone remember Mark in your thoughts and prayers. The company he works for, which is a manufactoring company is downsizing again. They let go 30 people this week, he still has his job for 2 reasons. He has been working for 23 years, plus he never misses work. But I know it is only time and they will be closing the whole place down. Our county is the 2nd highest unemployment in SC. There is no jobs here, so we know what this means. I think this is a lot of my problem, I know that I can not pay all the bills myself, and what does someone his age do when there is no work. I would not move because my job is awesome and the pay is not that bad. I am trying not to let this bother me, but how do you not think about it all the time. I know this has to be hard on him, but he is someone that acts like everything is wonderful all the time.

 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

 

Hugs, Terry

Well are weekly weigh in went awesome for Mark he lost 3.6 lbs. so he is doing aweseome. I had a 2lb gain, woke up at 5:00 this morning with a vistor named Ms. Flo. so I will take the 2lb gain and take my 800 mg of motrin and going back to bed until Monday morning. LOL

 

Well we have our first pre season football game tonight against the Colts. Go Panthers!!! Mark is all excited, getting his menu going of junk. And he is really glad that the first game falls on a sane day for him.

 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

 

Terry 

Well this week has been really awesome for food and exercise until today. I got a lovely email from my ungrateful sister. She needs to be on med's, I actually considered not reading it, but low and behold I'm to darn noisey for my own good. So I was sitting and eating my wonderful breakfast at work, and I could not believe what she had the nerve to say to me. She will never admit to doing anything wrong, so after her dogging me with about what I had the nerve to say to her in a email she informed me to never contact her again. Which is fine with me, but then she sent me 8 more emails, and I read each one. Well trying not to let this effect my job, I ate chocolate cake, pizza, wings Oh but I ate some veggies also. We had 1 of the ladies a party she has been working at the senior center for 30 years. So before I knew what happened, I let the food control how I felt. Not one time did I feel guilty until tonight for what I was doing. It was like I left my body and something else took over. I felt like I was up in the air looking down at this fat women eating all that food. But I did want everyone to know that I felt like" Shit" tonight. Oh I wonder why? It is okay now, I don't need you guys to tell me why I felt like shit, I know the answer to that stupid question I just asked.

 

So after a crappy day, but of course again I allowed someone else to control me again. The one thing I promised myself that I would not ever let happen again. But I did. I printed out all of the emails, and took them out back and burned everyone of them and said, You will not let someone continue to control who you are and what you do. I'm very positive that things like this will stop one day. Tomorrow is a new day, I will wake up and know that I deserve to change all the negative in my life and be the very best person that I can be. I will have a awesome day with work, food, and exercise. I actually Love myself, and I love who I am becoming.

 

Also I am becoming more aware that unless my sister can make everyone else she comes into contact with feel less about their selves is the only way that she can feel good about herself. I feel sorry for her.

 

Hope everyone has a awesome night and I'm sorry for the downer post, but Mark is not here and I needed to share this so I can sleep knowing that I have written it all out and expressed what I feel. Thanks for reading and this place helps so much! That is another thing until I joined this site, I have never been able to share my true feelings. Wow that is an accomplishment in it self.

 

Hugs, Terry

I finally got my 100 miles on the Bike.  Well I actually got 100.7 miles. We can't forget about that .7 now can we. That will be added on to my next 100 miles. I also have to share, oh wait I want you guys to guess what I did new today. Okay I know there is no way that you could ever guess what I did today. I was actually able to jump rope. And If I say so for myself. I was awesome.   Mark got a new jump rope from his blue points that he records his exercise with his insurance company. And it is so much fun. Okay it was kinda  hard, but it was like wow I remember doing this when I was little. You know all them jump rope games that we all use to play. It was like fun!!!! I have noticed that we don't have as many participating in the olympic games anymore. Or maybe they are not just showing their points right now. But anyway. I'm in it 100% and will until the end. Hope everyone is doing great!

Hugs, Terry

Hello all you wonderful Losers. You know today a guy from work called me a loser, LOL and all I could do was laugh, and he asked me why I was laughing and I told him it was because I am a loser. I have lost 29 lbs, so yes I'm a loser, but informed him that yes I can lose my weight, but you are ugly and you can not get rid of that. HAHAHAHAHA I am so happy that I final spoke up to this jerk, he will now leave me alone. I hurt his feelings. And I actually don't care. He even told my boss, so we had a sit down and I was informed that he would be wrote up if I wanted him to be. But as I said, no need he will no longer be a problem for me. You know there are some people that come into our lives that need to be dealt with like this. They are very unhappy individuals that do this to make their selves feel better.

 

Here is a quote that I came upon today that I just had to share. LOL

 

Ellen Degeneres
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

 

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday!

 

Hugs, Terry

 

 

Okay for starters Mark gained 3.4 lbs. I know it has nothing to do with him not working out. But I bet a lot has to do with him being laid off and doing a lot of laying around and not as careful with his food. We are hoping that he heads back to work on Monday and he said that he will get it back off this next week. So kudo's to him.

 

As for me I lost 1.6 lbs.  Wooo Hoo for me. 1 more lb to 30 and 3.7 to 180's wow just saying that seems so unreal. Now I have to make sure that I keep that positive attitude and no scale during the week. (Thanks Danielle)

 

I believe that just about the whole week I ate good and exercise like wow! Now I did a few bad food choices this week, but nothing to stress about. Staying posititve is very important thing in losing weight and feeling great about yourself.

 

Wanted everyone to know that my mom and I really appreciate the prayers, and all the best for her to get through all this mess. Mark and I went yesterday and spent some time with her, we took her out to eat and bought her some groceries. That really made me feel good to be able to once in my life to help her out financially. She has always done that for me, I was finally able to help her a little. We also took care of couple of credit cards, was not sure if my sister had numbers to use or not. Didn't want to take a chance. Also figured out how much my sister had stolen and it was a total of 2750.00 since 7/1/2008. Also used a credit card with over 2000.00 charged on it. Isn't this all so wonderful! NOT!!! But as Danielle said she is a "BITCH" Checked in to see if we could press charges as a couple had asked about, and because she "was" on the account that she was authroized to use the account. This is something that I'm actually in the process of writing a letter to the Lt. Gov office, which handles the aging in SC. I will be addressing this problem that seems to be more common then most people know about. There needs to be something that banks can do to insure that our seniors do not get abused my their own families. I have also decided at this time to not talk directly with my sister, I am going to either send her a letter thru snail mail or email. This way I do not have to ever hear her make excuses for her unbelievalble actions that she has done to mom.  Thanks again for everything, it is great to have somewhere to come to when you ned something. You guys have all come through so many times for me.

 

I now know what it is to love myself, and it is because of this place.

 

Hugs all around, Terry

I really need to express how I feel about something very personal to me. My mom is 79 years old, and she is not in the best health. Well yesterday when I talked with her on my way home from work, she told me that she received a letter from the bank. And this letter informed her that she had transactions come through her account and there was not enough money to cover them. Well I knew that was not possible, since my dad died in 1985 my mom has always keep plenty of money in the bank, just in case of an emergency. So it gave her a few that had not went thru and that she needed $33 to bring the account up to date. So her plan was to go to the bank this morning to find out what was going on. Well the bank informed her that someone had been drawing electronic tansfers out of her bank account and into theirs. Well as hard as it has been to believe that this has happened. It turned out to be my sister. The only comment so far, I am trying to not beat the crap out of her, she claims my mom gave her permission. How does someone that you have always looked up to, do something like this to their own mom. I'm going after lunch tomorrow to see what I can do, the bank has done so much, really helped her get another account and to get things transfered that she has, such as automatic payments. But the big problem is my sister is mad at my mom. Was very rude, told her that she is crazy. All kinds of stupid crap. I'm not sure if I'm going to confront my sister or what, right now anyway. I'm afraid of what I might say or do to her right now. I do want to ask her to drop her pants, cause she much have one big set of balls, to do something like that. I hate that I'm sharing something like this on here, but I thought if I could get it out, that it might stop eating the crap out of me. Oh yea, she had access to my mom's account, she is listed on it, so if something happened she could take care of things. So filing charges is out of the question. So if anyone would like to send up a prayer for my mom I would really appreciate it. Her name is Ella. She needs strength to make it through and to start over. She only has $20 to her name right now, her check will be in on Monday. I would love to know how a daughter could do this to their own mother. I don't know if I will ever understand something like that.

 

Hugs, Terry

I come on the site every single day probably 50 times, just to check to see how everyone else is doing. I just noticed today that I dont' take time to blog each day. I love being able to check out all the sites and see what everyone is up to. Today seems to be a very slow day. So this is what I need you guys to do. Since I can't seem to get on here and talk about what is going on with me, I need you guys to keep me entertained during the day. LOL It is so much enjoyment for me to check out all of your sites and soon as I see a new message pop up man I'm running to find out what has been said. This is sad isn't it. I need a LIFE!!!!! LOL I always have plenty of stuff at work to do, but I'm lucky my job allows me to do other stuff also. My boss even caught me yesterday putting in coke cap codes in mycokerewards.com. Yikes I thought for sure I was going to get a burn for that one. But he just asked me what is was and what I can buy with my points. hehehehe Okay well I'm working on some payroll today, so I guess until someone else puts up a message I will just have to do actual work. Yikes! That is a scarey thought.

 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I know I am I have been looking at a box of truffles since Monday the 28, I got for my birthday, but saving them until Saturday to eat the whole darn box by myself.

 

Hugs,

Terry

Just now getting on to post our weekly weigh in. Mark lost .2 oz. So he is now 195.0 Yehawww Mark! I actually stayed the same. Not sure how that happened after eating just about a whole birthday cake on Friday. Now I did work very hard on Friday night after sitting here and relizing that I had weigh in the next morning. So I took my bootie and worked for over 2 hrs and I mean worked hard. So when I weighed in. I was totally excited to see the same. I tell you something that was some awesome Cake. So for my birthday, since it falls on a weekday, I also get extra birthday days. (yes Marcus what Amber said is correct)  My Mom, Sister and Mark took me out for Bar B Q, our sane day. So I actually can't eat a lot at a time, but I almost ate a half rack of baby back ribs, cole slaw, beans, and f fries. Oh it was to die for. Then on Sunday, we played the food really well. But then Monday, since that is my birthday LOL, Jeremy took me and Mark out to Olive Garden and I had spag. with a wonderful salad and bread sticks. Oh it was wonderful! Mark is layed off again this week, so his honey to do list will keep him very active all week. LOL I am also going to have him work out with me in the evening at least 2 or 3 nights this week. I know when next Monday comes around he will be very excited and hopeful that he can go back to work. hahahahahahahahahaha 

 

Also would like to thank everyone that sent me Birthday wishes. I'm not usually big on birthday's except everyone elses. So I guess that is why everyone from work and my family went so overboard, but I really did appreciate it so much.

 

Oh yea I have something else so exciting to share.  My sister went ape shit over me on Saturday, she could not believe how good I looked and said it like a million times. Coming from her that made my day. And then today at work, everyone keep saying little things, even my boss said darn Terry how much have you lost. That made my day and week. LOL. I really love to hear those comments, but it also seems like I get a funny feeling, like why are they saying this to me. Even if I like it I don't like it. Okay I know that might not make sense. But it is how I feel.

 

Alright maybe I should write smaller blogs everyday, instead of cramming everything in 1 blogs. LOL

 

Keep on Pounding!

 

Hugs,

Terry

    

 

Here is a video of Mary, she is a niece of a lady that I work with. She is 6 yrs old and is totally precious, and loves the camera. Wanted to share with everyone, especially if you have ever heard the song Apple Bottom Jeans.

Well was I ever surprised when I got to work this morning that they had decided to celebrate my B'Day today, instead of Monday when it is actually my B'Day. They thought this way I would never expect anything. And they were so right. But I did what to scream at them and say "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT I HAVE WEIGH IN DAY TOMORROW", but I did not do that, that would be too mean. So since I walked in to work this morning, it has been one surprise after another. 1st thing I run into was a sign on the front door.  And then when I walked down the hall way to my office I came upon this.  This was located outside my office. And then when I walked into my office this is what I saw then.  Isn't it beautiful and it has devils food cake and white icing and I had so much of it, that I think I might toss cookies. But it was good and I'm not upset at all that I pigged out today. As the old saying goes. "Shit Happens" :-) So after opening up presents and cards I put them all on my door for everyone to see.  And then I know that many others helped put this together, but I know that my BFF Teresa did plan it. So here is a picture of her and me. Which I took with my new camera that totally rocks.  Then after I returned from a very very small lunch, full from cake. I received these from my sister. Wow!  So as you can see I have had a awesome day, thanks to so many friends at work.

 

Terry :-) Getting very sleepy here, oh man I wonder why? heheheheh

I can not believe what this Olympic Challenge has done for me well really for the both of us. It has brought out something in me that I never knew was there. I no longer worry about the scale. Even if it never moves, which I know that some day it will have to. I ended up working out for over 3 hours tonight. WTF I never have done that especially in the evening. I love sitting and watching TV in the evening. I Love TV. But instead I went and worked my butt off. Okay I know it is still there and a lot of it. But I worked hard. And I have read so many post from the rest of you guys that is so motivating and it just makes me what to even work harder to not give up and to know that you guys are out there supporting each other. That is so amazing!

 

Mark's Weekly Olympic Total: 37 Points

 

Terry's Weekly Olympic Total: 42.5 Points

 

Hugs, Terry

 

I can not paint or draw, but here is one of my creations that I have put on our wall in our exercise room. I am planning on doing different stuff all over the walls. Abstract, flowers and anything I can think of. The plain white walls have to go. Thought I would share what we are doing to our walls. LOL

 

I lost .6 lbs and very happy with that. Anything that I lose is a plus for me. Mark stayed the same. So we now weigh the exact same thing. What is up with that. LOL Doing the Olympic challenge has been so amazing for the both of us. I even worked out on my sane day. A very first for me, except when we were able to ride our bikes. Way to hot to ride them now. Mark choose not to work out on our sane day. But as I told him, I'm not your mommy and I can't make you do anything that you don't want to.  Yesterday's sane food was not everything that I wanted. Had a huge drop in my blood sugar and slept for 4 1/2 hours in the afternoon. Very nice nap and when I woke up blood sugar was much better and I felt a lot better.

 

Hope everyone has a wonderful Day!

 

Hugs, Terry

 

We are also babysitting for Mark's brother this week, they have 3 dogs and every year they ask us to watch 1 of their babies. She is a sweety, but lets us all know that she is in charge. Here is a picture of her and also had to include my babies in the pictures.

 

Cricket   

 

Buster

 

T-2 (She said her mommy looks better upside down)

                                         

Everything went really well today with my mom. She is well and feeling great and is at home sleeping. LOL Thanks to everyone that took time to send me messages or responded to my blog. You guys make me feel like I am not alone and I have so many of you guys in my family and really show that you care. You guys are the greatest.

 

Hugs,

Terry

 

When I got home tonight, This is how I found Buster

Really not sure what the next 2 days hold for exercise for me. So I went and worked out for about 1 1/2 hours tonight. Going to try to do a least the Elliptical in the morning. But I have to be at work at 6:00 in the morning. Our network has gone down, so all payroll will have to be done by hand. This is all new to me. Yikes! Then after that I will be leaving work to go to stay with my mom, she will be having surgery on Thursday morning. So not sure how long I will have to stay with her before heading home on Thursday night. I had hopes that my sister might call and at least stay with Mom after she got off from work. For some reason she thinks it is easier for me to take time off then her. Don't get me wrong I would of been there no matter what, but for her to say. Just call me and let me know what is going on. Yea right, that will not happen. Anyway I will be there for my mom. She only lives 10 mins from my sister,  where I live a hour and 1/2 from my mom. Well that might not be for much longer. It is so hard to convince a parent that it is time that they don't live by themselves. That is a big trial that we are dealing with now.

 

To some good news, food and exercise has been great this week. Of course the Olympic Challenge has made a big difference in that. I do wish that maybe water exercise could be added to the Olympic points.

 

Hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week, and if I get home early enough on Thursday night I will be checking in to see what everyone has been up to.

 

Hugs,

Terry

Mark went out this morning and bought a new exercise bike. I'm was so excited to get on it and try it. It has the back sit type. The other one we have is like a bike and my back hurts to bad on it. So I jumped on it, okay really I dragged myself on it and set one of the preset programs and my eyes about jumped out of my head when it said 30 min. Oh please like I can do 30 min. But guess what I did it. It even has resistance changes from 3 to 8 on it and a thing to show if you are on target with the speed. I did so well. Ended up with 30 min and a little over 5 miles. I'm so pleased with myself. Especially about doing something other then sitting around on Sunday or floating in the pool. I actually did exercise. Wooooohooo I'm so proud of myself. It was one of those moments that I look in the mirror and say to myself. I deserve to be happy and healthy and to keep plugging along .

 

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday, I'm going to go float in the pool for about a hour before Mark fixes supper. Also I didn't know he was going to get the exercise bike, it was a early birthday presnt for me from him. That way I can't complain that I can't do the bike cause it hurts my back.

 

~~Terry~~