Teddybear Lady

Thank you! I need all the "cheerleaders" I can get. haha I thought about posting a before and current picture, but I'm kinda embarrassed of how I had let myself go before doing something about it.

meanmom

Teddybear Lady a lot of us have let ourselves go. Nothing to be embarassed about. That is why we are all here. I weighed in today and was down 4.3 pounds in a week and a half. Hopefully I can behave myself at my quilt retreat. I am taking a bunch of UFO"S. Hopefully I can complete a bunch. I have homework for a quilting class to do also. I am taking all things that don't require much thought so I can talk and sew at the same time. I have my fabric for the mystery I am planning on taking that with me too.
Pam Prayers for healing for your family.
Pat

Mousie

congrats Teddybear Lady!
Believe it or not, even though I am working on my weight issues all the time, I forget to get on the scale!
I like to do it first thing in the morning before downing anything. Won't be tomolly

Pam H

I am having a heck of a time with my Ireland quilt. I made 4 strips sets and cut them all into 1 1/2" pieces. None of them are fitting together. I don't understand why. I remade one of the strips and it seems to be working ok. Now I will have to decide if I rip out the 40-50 sewn sets to use the part that works or to recut everything. Ugh!
Off to hold my Allie Cat for a couple hours. She will make everything all better!

Beachbound

If it would help you be accountable, I say do it! Look at the people on Biggest Loser, they get up there in their underwear almost. Let's face it, we all let ourself go somewhat or we would not be posting here. You are truely making a difference in your health NOW & that is what counts....so "GO YOU!!!!"

Beachbound

oh my goodness, that sounds like a diffucult project. Maybe if you walk away for a while things will gell for you. I know I have to do that many times & when I come back I wonder why I didn't figure it out the first time. Good luck, I hope you will show us what it looks like.

Teddybear Lady

I weigh in on Mondays and Thursdays. On Monday, I thought the scales were messed up at my weigh in place. I had lost 3.8 lbs. over the weekend. Well, today, I am down another 1.8 lbs. I'm finally doing this! If I can figure out how to post a picture from my scans, I will. My diet counselor took one the day I started and one just the other day for a comparison.

Thanks for all the encouraging words. We can do this! Yay, go us!!!

meanmom

Pam I tried to make what was supposed to be a quick quilt I saw on Pintrest. I sewed and cut and sewed and cut. Nothing fit together. I tried to put them together a different way and hated it. I finally couldn't stand to look at it any more and put it away for a later date and started over. Sometimes I just don't know what happens. Good luck getting it to work. I hope you don't have to rip much.
I leave tomorrow on my retreat. They serve awesome food. I sure hope I can behave myself. There is always dessert, pie or cake, homemade bread, biscuits etc. I have a bunch of UFO's packed. Hopefully I can get some of them out of the way. I want to be able to purchase a bunch more at the International Quilt Show in Cincinnati.

JuneBillie

Congrats to you that have lost some more of yourself. I hope soon I can be among you again. So many of you also very busy sewing. Now that I can do.

Pam H

My border is coming along. I remade one of my strip sets and it is working much better. The timeline is giving me some anxiety. The quilts have to be in Illinois by 4/15. Yikes! Hopefully I can get it finished and off to the longarmer this weekend or monday at the latest.
Today was the funeral. It was a tough one. The tiny white casket and all the pictures made it hard. Ethan loved the Pixar Cars movie. There is a fan page on facebook and they somehow knew about Ethan. People from all over the world sent toy cars from the movie to be given out at the funeral. They received over 700 cars! The outpouring of love for this child and his family was truly heartwarming. They served pizza and chocolate chip cookies which were Ethan's favorites. Everything was very nice. They burial will be saturday. He will be cremated and the cremanes will be put in a Toy Story lunch box for the burial. After the funeral we walked out of the sanctuary to "You've Got a Friend in Me". Sorry to go on and on about this. I can't help it.