Hello All...

Such a busy day with 4 yr old DGD. We took her to see the dolphins and white tigers. She enjoyed her adventure!

Karen, well that's good news that your MIL didn't have a stroke after all. It seems very different from a urinary tract infection, not sure how they could mix those up. It's impossible to get someone to change the way they eat if they don't want to change. I bet it does make you tired and scared.

Hope everyone is doing good. Warrior on....

Happy HUMP Day & Last day of January, Warriors!!

Hope this finds all of you doing well! Take some time today to just chil-lax to take care of YOU b/c you're WORTH IT!

It's all down-hill to the w/e from here!

Stay WARRIOR Strong!

Carb-Free Food for Thought:
Remember to H.A.L.T (ask yourself: are you Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired?) before indulging in any trigger foods! If you’re hungry, eat perfectly OP foods!
~ unknown

Onward WARRIORS! We've GOT THIS! Woot! Woot!

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I can hardly believe that we are fini with January. Where did the days go??? Holy Hannah!

It's all good though b/c that means we're getting that MUCH closer to SPRING!

29 Days til SPRING!

Weather has been spectacular! It's gonna be around the low 70s today and that's the report for the rest of the week as well! Imma jazzed!

We could use a week's worth of rain... but none is forthcoming... gonna be a wicked summer if we don't get some soon! Fire Warnings have already been posted...YIKES!

Anyhoo...

Kids at school are doing great! Everyday is a joy even with the few knuckle heads I have but they'll come around...if not, I only have 73 more days with 'em...

Kids & some of the staff at school are dropping like flies, they either have the flu or strep! YIKES! Hope I don't get either! I "ain't got time for that!"

Otherwise, I can't complain, everything is going great in all other aspects of my life as well (WOL etc...) ~ just life in general! For that, I am truly grateful and it's not by accident or luck ~ it's by design!

I totally believe we make the best of our opportunities or NOT. And I've made the best of mine!

I have no idea where all "that" ↑ came from, just randomness I suppose. I really have an "attitude of gratitude" like Bluesinger (Glenda) has as her signature line...

Karen: We're here for you, Karen! Well that's AWESOME NEWS!Sorry to hear about her poor health. But that's good news that the tumor isn't growing and doesn't affect anything... But I hear your anxiety about how can it NOT be serious if it's there...

Maybe she needs a second or third opinion??? I remember you talking before about how poorly she eats for being a diabetic and using her insulin to regulate her blood sugars instead of eating proper foods...

Is she T1 or T2? Doesn't make any difference, just curious...

Yep, you can't teach a new dog new tricks who doesn't wanna learn, that's for sure. I know it's frustrating for you and Tony b/c all you want is for her to live a good healthy quality of life for as long as possible...Hope your ducks line up quickly b/c we miss you in here when you don't post!

De: Wow that sounds like a fun day for sure! I would have enjoyed that adventure too! Imma doing super duper and hope you're doing the same!

I know you're probably beside yourself counting the days, hours before your DD and DGD arrive for their visit! How long are they staying?

Berni:
Hope you're doing well and have finally gotten over that tummy problem!

Thanks guys

DE the dolphins and tigers sound great, in fact I would have loved to seen them and been there Your grands are growing up wonderful with you around and treating them so well

HI Bernie!!!

JO, yea she is T2. The kind you can control without truly having a real med problem like T1 people but I tell ya, older one gets the more set in their ways......I think that is why I am doing ok on this plan, older I get I see I won't do this again so I best hold now LOL

So far so good on sick and school here, everyone seems healthy for like a week so far



Day rolling along
off to my moms for shopping and hit the dollar store.
she wants out. She had no good wins at the casino, bummer, if she hits big she always gives me money HAha and I always have fingers crossed she hits big One time she hit 8K and all us kids got a share which was super cool....I love someone handing me money ya know LOL


off to get moving. everyone have a fab day

Hi all...

My girls will be here tonight! Can't wait...will miss the one not coming, but will focus on the two here!!! They stay with us. We have a big house, they will each have their own room and share a bathroom between them. Getting rooms ready with fresh sheets.

I really like dolphins. My favorite memory of dolphins is when we went to Maui and took a whale watching cruise and dolphins were swimming all around us. It's really cool seeing them in their own environment out in the ocean. We also saw a whale breech at that time. Another time we went snorkeling out in the ocean and saw sea turtles, lots of fish and even a small shark.

Busy days ahead so I won't be posting much, just having fun with the family!


Have a great day Warriors!!!

Hello warriors,

Quick drive by to say hi!

How is everyone doing today?

Stomach doing better this week still sticking to my egg muffins and broth! I have no appetite at the moment!

De.... enjoy yourself with your family!

Karen..... So glad things are working out with MIL! What a health scare but luckily it turned out okay!

Jo.... Enjoy the kiddos at school! Stay well the flu really bad around here this year they have closed some schools like 200 kidscalled in sick!
Have a terrific Thursday warriors and take care of yourself!

Happy 1st Day of February, Warriors!!

Have a totally kick Azz, BAD Azz 100% OP Friday Eve b/c it's always a CHOICE!

Stay WARRIOR Strong!

Carb-Free Food for Thought:
Beauty begins the moment you decided to be YOURSELF!!
~ Coco Chanel

Onward WARRIORS! We've GOT THIS! Woot! Woot!

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Woot! Woot! All the Warrior posted yesterday! Right ON!

Everything is going great here, no complaints etc. The week is flyin' by crazy fast, but that's not unusual for me!

28 Days til SPRING!

Karen: I totally understand the "set in their ways" attitude... we gotta respect it EVEN if we don't like it.

Oh yes, I agree about "won't do this again"... Imma assuming you mean eating SAD again and gaining back the weight, right?

Imma not GOING back there EVER! It really is our personal CHOICE! That's great that everyone seems healthy... pretty soon this flu/strep season will be taillights down the highway! Awww, sorry to hear your mother wasn't a winner at the casino... Better LUCK next time!

De: Hope they had an uneventful trip! What kinda plans/adventures have you scheduled?

Imma nosy, so how come your other DGD didn't come too? Is it school-related?I love seeing the creatures/critters in their environments... so exciting! We'll miss your posts but I know you'll have an über great time with your girls! Thanks and I know you will too!

Berni: Hi right back atcha, girlie! Hope each day finds you getting better and better.You betcha! Yep, I heard about some schools closing down b/c of the flu etc, none have been closed here in our district. But our nurses are keeping a running log of the kiddos that are sick and what it is: flu or strep etc...

Wow really quiet in here, so I'll get the ball rollin'



Happy Friday, Warriors!!

Wishing all of you a totally fab-tastic Friday in every single way possible! Hope you find some time this w/e to just chil-lax and take care of YOU!

Stay WARRIOR Strong!

Carb-Free Food for Thought:
SLOW progress is better than NO progress!!
~ unknown

Onward WARRIORS! We've GOT THIS! Woot! Woot!

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Not too much happening here. SOSAD except that today is Parent Teacher Conferences as well as Monday.

Always great fun to meet the parents! For some of my kiddos, my class is the only one in which they are successful so Imma always glad to be there to be a bright spot supporting their student.

27 Days til SPRING!

I always look forward to the w/e to just chil-lax and re-charge the ole batteries. But then again, I look forward to getting back to school and teaching the kiddos! Life is good!

Hello warriors,

How is everyone doing today?

De hope you are having fun with your family!

Jo... I bet Parent teacher conference are the best with you!
I am looking forward to a chillax weekend ! Thinks to do and that it!
Snow ❄️ tomorrow and Sunday 1-3 inches!
Have a fantastic Friday warriors and take care of yourself!

hey guys
nothing doing here
just chugging along and trying not to freeze

great day all

G' Saturday Mornin', Warriors!!

Wishing you a totally kick Azz, BAD Azz 100% OP day b/c it's always a CHOICE!

Stay WARRIOR Strong!

Carb-Free Food for Thought:
STOP wishing. START doing.
~ unknown

Onward WARRIORS! We've GOT THIS! Woot! Woot!

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Yesterday's PT conferences went very well. The district mandates that we see 100% of our parents and I have 136 kiddos...so I was bouncing in and out of conferences like mad! I'll be doing the same Monday morning. Have an eye doctor app in the afternoon...

Our conferences are only 10 mins long. Just more a meet and greet then getting into the nuts and bolts of "lil Johnny's" missing work, inappropriate behavior, why he has an F, etc. The notion is that if we're having problems with "lil Johnny" we've been contacting the parents all along and we're NOT springing this on them this late in the year, KWIM???

Anyhoo... already started on my w/e "to-do" list and mayhaps a siesta later if lil Chico wants one!

26 Days til SPRING!

Berni: Yeppers they're great fun.

What I love best is when I meet some of the 'rents and in my head Imma saying: "wow, now I know why your student is such a bobble head!" Sounds like an awesome plan b/c that's mine TOO! Yikes! Be careful out there if you venture out!
Mine really was fantastic, hope yours was the same!

Karen: Awwwwww sorry to hear your weather is still "winter-y" hope it improves soon!

Hope your MIL is doing better!

De:
I know you're having fun with the "girls"! Of course we miss you in here!

Hello warriors,

How is everyone doing today?

Got most of my things to do done today!

Working on wash tomorrow!
My DS is having a super bowl party tomorrow Tex mex with chik carne asade, guacamole and a chik tortilla soup! I will enjoy my salad and Chicken or a spinach omelette! Tummy feeling good but I still being careful! Maybe I be a wild women and make a spinach quiche! I use almond milk for my custard with the eggs instead of cream!
Another round of snow ⛄️ tomorrow am but should be done by 12.
Jo... glad conference going well!
Karen.... brrr I know you don’t like the cold!
Have a spectacular Saturday warriors and take care of yourself!

JO am laughing cause, yea right, it is Chico that will make that decision on the siesta right? HA HA too funny

You said it Bernie, cold weather is a no go for me
Snow again, feel for ya girl!!!


Hey all
nothing much again
just going thru the days
rain and more rain today. bleck, they say freeze and all tonight, hmmm, no school or delay of 2-3 hrs for kiddo tomorrow morn? who knows wait and see on this.

have to hit grocery store in a bit. few things, nothing major. great to shop very early sun. morn, no one there

great day warriors!!

G' Day Mornin', Warriors!!

Hope this finds all of you doing well and not working too hard prepping for your Superbowl Sunday festivities!

Stay WARRIOR Strong!

Carb-Free Food for Thought:
Happiness starts with you ~ not with your relationships, not with your money, but with YOU!
~ unknown

Onward WARRIORS! We've GOT THIS! Woot! Woot!

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SOSAD esp for the w/e happening here. Couple of chores left on my w/e "to-do" list and Imma done!

As for the Superbowl: Imma not a TV-watching-sports fan...That's probably a blasphemous statement in some areas!

To be honest, I don't even KNOW which teams are attending the Superbowl. But I hope the underdogs win!

Imma not much of a TV watcher to begin with. I pop it on long enough to hear the weather report.

The political news depresses me to no end since all I can do is complain about it and that's such a waste of energy and affects my positive attitude. So I don't watch it!

Moving on...

25 Days til SPRING!

It's been lovely here weather-wise. Flirting around the high 60s low 70s. This week temps are supposed to be same ole same ole! I ain't complaining.

Sat out yesterday and sunbathed for 30 mins in shorts and a tank top. Imma a sun worshiper! I LOVE the and getting my vitamin D naturally!!! It's gonna be low 70s today, so I'll be out there working on my tan & vitamin D again!

Topic Change:

I said this to Lindalove in my journal this morning when she was describing the 100% OP foods she was serving at her Superbowl party today:B/c it's always a CHOICE to eat 100% OP or not.

What I've read on here is that when some people eat off plan it's b/c they feel deprived that they can't eat "those" foods any more... Me thinks that they should feel deprived that they are not at their optimal health which IMHO, they have control over!

For me it's a mindset or a mind "reset!"

I had to decide which was MORE important; Eating properly and maintaining my GOOD health and weight or a nanosecond of indulgence eating those toxic carbs?

B/c the pleasure of eating toxic carbs only lasts for a few seconds... And I feel sick not only in mind and spirit (from the guilt of loss of CONTROL) but the carbs tear up my guts...

I've played the self-destructive game of having "cheat days" too many times before!

Eat crap = gain weight, re-lose those added pounds, rinse, repeat, recycle and then Imma back to my old yo-yo dieting ways...and UP goes the weight.

Sure ain't worth it at all b/c I respect myself to much!

I've worked to ding dang HARD to get where I am! I surely am NOT going to ruin all this to face plant into carb-age CRAPOLA!

Imma a recovering morbidly obese carb addict and I don't EAT that way any more!

I am in the best health ever (mind, body and spirit) and I am not going to jeopardize that! B/c bottom line, it's my CHOICE!

My past eating behavior was to binge eat carbs and when I stick 100% OP I don't EVER binge eat.

I've learned early on in this journey to avoid certain totally OP foods b/c I WILL binge eat them: cheese (it's like crack to me), pork rinds and nuts... If I buy any of those items, I'll eat the entire package b/c I have portion control issues. I don't feel deprived that I can't eat them any more!

I just noticed that tomorrow will be my 4th Atkins-versary in Maintenance!

Sorry didn't mean to go off on a tangent!

Berni:Me too! at wild woman with the almond milk!

Imma glad to hear that your tummy is feeling better! I don't blame you for being careful!

WTG stickin' to your 100% OP fare for your son's Superbowl party! Not that I am the least bit surprised b/c that's HOW we roll !!!!You guys sure are getting hit with the snow...

Imma glad I live here! Me too! I think everyone is having good conferences b/c the parents are not in the dark about their kiddos academic or behavioral expectations!

Karen: Of course it's his decision... I mean hell he's 8 lbs of TERROR! Ditto! Is everything okay? B/c you don't sound like yourself. I know you hate hate hate the cold and winter-y weather... Sounds like you're in a blue funk. You know I only wish good things for you and yours! Thanks and you too!

Any plans for the Superbowl??

De:
Hope all is going well! Are you guys planning or attending a Superbowl party?

JO sent ya a quickie email.....just to let ya know all is good and yes for sure I am 1000% waiting for early spring to happen cause I blossom in that time, in winter I shut down HAHA
all cool

Hello warriors,

Happy super bowl Sunday!

Been out all morning shoveling the driveway and walkways! Still snowing was suppose to stop at 12. They now say till 3.
Will do some more shoveling and then head by son for Super Bowl Celebration! Heck don’t know if I wasn’t asked if I would even bother to watch game!

Have a super Sunday warriors and take care of yourself!