Hi all. I've been doing real well for the last two days. Went to the store and stocked up on a variety of foods. I am not one who can plan their meals ahead of time. I need to be able to eat what I want at each meal or I will feel unsatisfied. I have to be a bit selfish when I want to lose weight. I treat myself to the things I like. I went and bought some boneless centercut porkchops and pineapple so I could do teriyaki with them. I got some dark rye for the egg salad I've been craving. Bought a bunch of ground beef for freezing into weighed out patties for the freezer. I keep a few Lean Cuisine frozen meals and I like the new Pannini sandwiches. I will buy the regular ones as well as the Lean Cuisines because I find a half of one fills me up fine. For snacks I usually have regular ice cream that I eat in a 1/2 cup Tupperware snack cup. I like the Jello fat free Devils Food pudding cups. I also like the new Weight Watcher's Key Lime Cheesecake and I love the peanut butter chocolate or mint Skinny Cows. I fool myself into "healthy" desserts by using a frozen pancake as a base, topping it with sliced banana, cinnamon sugar and a squirt of whipped cream and calling it "pie". Do the same with a nuked sliced apple or canned blueberry topping. For take-alongs I carry little cups of natural applesauce, chewy low fat granola bars or breakfast bars, the above mentioned cheesecakes or pudding and fresh fruit. When I know I'll be out for awhile I pack a small insulated lunch bag with snacks and a diet soda so I won't be tempted by the drive-though or heaven forbid the donut shop. I have a challenge tonight, will be meeting some Red Hatters to eat at Dave and Busters. Looked at their menu and it's going to take some doing to stay on program. I see they have rice and they have steak and grilled shrimp. Maybe they will sub the grilled shrimp for the fried on the shrimp dinner. Or I could bring my insulated bag with gel ice, order the steak and shrimp and bring the steak home for a cold steak lunch tomorrow YUM. Tomorrow is my weigh-in and I'm shooting for a break even day what with eating out and hanging out in the bar to watch some friends in a karioke contest. They won a cruise last year and are shooting for a trip to Hawaii this year.

Ivamae, I too am in need of that info. I went to yahoo to submit and there isnt anywhere where you do it yourself or its just so hidden.. Google is the only one that I have and have not done that yet. I redid some of my stuff like changed the background color and some pictures. My biggest problem is that when you double click on some of my items to enlarge then, which by the way I didn't do that in the begining, the click thing so haven't a clue how to fix that. They are HUGEEEEE I can find no where to resize them in my tool bar or by right clicking and going to properties. This is a tuff thing when you are trying to do it yourself. I hosted with Yahoo and then they make you pay to submit. I don't get it. I am already paying them for the domain, the site, which I have been paying for, for months and not even had a site to view. Till now. Any help from anyone would help us both and Thanks to MaryAnn for your info. Connie

Thank you ALL so much for the birthday wishes!! My 'friends' in real life didn't remember..... but you all did. I really appreciate it. I turned 59 today... and I have decided this is going to be my year for improving and being good to myself, losing that 50 pounds I have been talking about forever, and treating myself better too. And Maryanntx and Kframe19..... Hope you two have had a lovely day too, and may all your wishes come true. June

Thanks for asking Imabest and Trin. I am doing very well. My surgery had been scheduled for 6/3, but my doctors got together and decided that since everything is responding so well to my chemo that I should keep getting my treatments and postpone my surgery till after the treatments. My surgeon said she expects the spots on my liver to shrink more and possibly disappear from the chemo. The only side effect I've had from the chemo is fatigue and I can't eat or drink anything cold for several days after the chemo. Jammer is doing okay too. I will update the KT Ebay page right now.