South Beach Diet - Monday Chat

Good morning all. :flow2: Hope everyone had a great weekend. I'm hoping that the next couple of days at work will be hassle-free. My boss is out of town until Wednesday, so hopefully we won't have any situations come up that he would need to handle.

Tonight, I'm going to the baseball game to watch my beloved Royals try to struggle their way through the season. Even though they're in the cellar, I just LOVE going to the ballpark. I can avoid the beer easy enough, but I'm sure the hot dogs, pretzels and nachos will be calling my name.

Have a great day everyone!

Morning Jana; Have fun at the game tonight. I love the fat free hot dogs from Oscar mayer. They are better cold to me than cooked. Maybe you could take some of those.
Me; Had a relaxing weekend. Got my hair done, got the a/c unit fixed for only $40, thanks to a great SIL, and his dad who owns a a/c business. Got by hedges in that I ordered. Hope to plant them today, since it rained last night ground good for digging. Not much else new here though.
Have a great day to the chicks to check in later.
Chipper

Good Morning Ladies

Nothing new to share. Going for treatments again this morning,and then the afternoon will be mine,after getting a load of laundry done.Oh I gained this week,up 2 lbs. again.Have to think of a plan that will get me down on the scale again.


We're having a sunny morning,a little cooler though.Was planning to wear a light outfit,but I guess that has to wait as were going back to cooler weather again.

Hugs:) BB

morning gals ! Rain all day yesterday and today... My backyard is a lake! Will just be a quiet indoor day...

Morning Chicks. I'm edging my way back on to my beach towel and hoping to have a good OP week. Doing P1 again (hopefully just for a week) to get back in the swing of things.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Where has BEACHGAL gone to?


All is fine here in Central West Virginia.. looks like rain,, It rained yesterday and last night,, Still OP. I have to study for my Finals in Keyboarding II,, and write a 10 page report on torture for English 101

Sooo Take Care fellow SBDers..

Morning!!! oooo! bad day yesterday! My son's birthday, I did great until dinner..
I had a scoop of pasta salad and CAKE! I was so tired because of all the sugar I was asleep by 7:30! And I felt awful!!
I won't even try to get on the scale today....Plus I was up 2 lbs last week due to my unwelcome friend...uuggh!!!
But I am back to the beach today....

Hoping for great weather!!

have a great day everyone!!!:goodvibes

Well girls our South Beach Diet made the MOVIES,

The new movie RV with Robin Williams.. the brother is arguing with his sister and she is gettin the best of him and he says "WHAT ARE YOU?, ON THE SOUTH ***** DIET?

This is for sure the new nickname when I am PMSING.. My littler brother pointed that out.... lol

Morning girls..and lurking guys!! I stayed completely OP this weekend. I weighed this morning, even though my official weigh in day is not until tomorrow, and I have only lost 1.5 lbs. I wonder if my body is not in starvation mode...I forgot to eat most of the weekend, and when I did it, it was mostly just veggies.
I got a lot of painting done arond the house...One more step closer to getting it on the market!!!!

morning everyone. I'm g oing to lunch with a friend today and I avoided our regular restaurant because I can't resist their fries! So instead we're going to a diner where I can get two grileld chicken breasts instead. :)

I can't wait to meet with this friend for lunch, I want him to partner with me in starting an online magazine! :)

p.s I think I've offiicially lost my addiction to ranch dressing! ha!

Jana, enjoy the game! I found that it helped me when I ate before I went to a game, brought (or planned to purchase) SBD-safe snacks with me (like peanuts in the shell, veggies with dip, roasted garbanzo beans, etc.), took my water with me, and focused more on the game and less on the food (it always used to be about the food for me...now I'm starting to see all the things I missed by focusing on food exclusively! :idea: ). Hope you have a blast! Just keep in mind that hot dogs almost always have sugar in them...the only ones we are allowed (and only rarely...think it's at least no more than once a week...but could be once a month. You'll have to check the GCGFG for more info) are low-fat beef. Fat free ones usually have a ton of sugar added in to make up for the lost fat. :(

Chipper, sounds like a great weekend! :sunny: Enjoy that gardening...there's such peace to being out in the garden!

Beach Bum...I must have missed something! :( What are you getting treatments for? :hug: I hope everything is okay. :worried: You take care of yourself, okay?

Morning, Schatzi! :hug: Hope you have a wonderful day inside!

Kelly, I always feel so much better after a week of P1. :yes: You are doing great!

Me:
This was a fun, but crazy, weekend! :dizzy: We went to a surprise anniversary party for my friend's parents on Saturday. I was asked to bring fruit salad in a watermelon basket...worked out well. I made a neat fruit dip to go with it (I'll post in the recipe forum...). Brought a WW bun with me for the burgers we had, and had salad and fruit. Also had a lot of veggies with dip, but avoided chips. ;) It was a great party! DH and I then ran to church, where he read, and then decided to have an impromptu dinner at this restaurant up on the hill above our town. It has the most incredible view! They had a guy playing piano, which was romantic, and we had a really good dinner! I had salmon with a cucumber dill sauce and couscous. :T

On Sunday we did church and bible study, then DH mulched the yard while I ate lunch and ran to get plants. My favorite nursery apparently closed sometime this winter...I'm devastated. :cry: I loved that place...and I hate it when Mom and Pop places close. :( Had to go to three other places to find someone that carries the right stuff...but finally found it. Got tons of impatiens, lots of different annuals for our front walkway, several perennials for the gardens, and a ton of veggie and herb plants for our veggie garden. I'm so excited to plant them this weekend! :dance:

Today I have to run errands...pharmacy, grocery store, return a movie, etc. Then I have to make something to pass for our book club meeting tonight. That should be fun. :)

Oh...one more thing! We went to Dunkin Donuts Saturday to grab coffee. I had looked over their website and couldn't tell if the 'flavor shots' for their coffee were SF or not. I asked, and they are!!! :cb: They have something like 10 flavors...things like toasted almond, blueberry, chocolate, caramel, coconut, etc. YUM! :T I got a latte with coconut and toasted almond. I added splenda and it was just amazing! :faint: I highly recommend a trip to DD in your future!

Have a wonderful day, chicks!

Beach Gal~ glad to see you post.. I was wonderring about you,, for some reason I seem to get you and beach bum confused sometimes, just when I am flying by and reading, I realized this morning that I had not heard from you lately......

Hello all -- tons of work to do, but I am procrastinating for a mo. I am technically down 1.5 pounds since last week ... just darn lucky, I guess, since I cheated a bit this weekend. I ate primarily OP foods, but too many. The weekends are hard for me because it's so much downtime, I'm at my parents' house every weekend and it's easy to slip there.

Mostly, I ate scads of black seedless grapes. Too many, probably. My 19-m/o niece and I ate fruit all weekend long, for some reason. But I also had a low-fat Weight Watchers ice cream bar, thinking it was no-sugar-added (Some are. This is truly not a lie I'm telling myself). I ate plenty of veggies and drank water all weekend, too.

Also made the Peanut Butter & Jelly cookies from one of the SBD cookbooks. Yum. They are really dangerous.

Beachgal Really? The DD flavor shots are sugar-free? I was told they were not! I hope I simply caught an unenlightened server ... because yum! Starbucks only has SF hazelnut and vanilla and I miss my almond flavoring!

lottie -- good luck! On-line magazines will probably kick the tails of print pubs! I work for a print one, unfortunately.

Jana -- I def. used to use that "take me out to the ballgame" song as a checklist for things I should eat while cheering for the game. Peanuts? Check! Popcorn? Check! Cracker Jack? Check! Icecreambeerhotdogpretzelfrieddough? Check! Good luck!

Mo, chipper, MsCrock, Schatzi, kyemom, Kelly and beachbum -- have a great rest of the day!

The hike yesterday was a lot of fun. Thank goodness they combined several different commandments/religions in one location because it took over 3 hours to hike to the seven locations we went to. And it is interesting crossing 10 lanes of traffic with about 40 boys!

My weight is up this morning but TOM is here so hopefully it will go back down soon.

Hi Laura:)

I'm Ok its my dear Hubby that has Lung Cancer.The lung cancer is being treated since March of this year. Good News ,we found out that the tumor is getting real small and chemo was finished as of Friday and today we found out that the radiation treatments are going to stop by next week.Than the follow-ups start.

Hugs :) BB

beach bum: so sorry to hear about yer hubby, glad he's doing better though!

So, I just went to lunch with a friend, I had a steak, mixed veggies and cottage cheese with iced tea no sugar.

I also went grocery shopping! I bought SO MUCH STUFF! I wanna make sure I stay stocked or else I'll start going out to eat a lot again if I dont' have food int he house! (Does anyone else do that?)

I bought snap peas, fresh green beans, radishes, celery, lots of zucchini, romaine lettuce, lean beef, ham, chicken and turkey bacon (butterball turkeybacon has 0 carbs) the others tend to have like 2 grams per piece.

I have a broken tooth and I hurt it today chewing, my mom is gonna pay for me to go to the dentist cuz the only place that takes my insurance has no appts until august!!!!!!! EEP!

Good afternoon beachies! :beach:

I had a good weekend, stayed busy. My weight this week has been all over the place but I haven't been drinking enough plain water or eating enough. I did this last time too. I forget to eat. So today more watchful and pay attention to getting enough food. :hungry:

I started taking a supplement that my sil is taking for fibromyalgia symptoms and it is supposed to help with the insulin resistance which should make it a little easier for me to lose weight. :dance: Hope it works for me like it is for her.

We start guardianship paperwork this week for MIL. :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: Wish us luck on that. :frypan:

If anyone wants to see my new great niece she is on growingfamily.com, birthdate April 26, first three letters of last name is Kin. Oh yeah, her name is Grace Elaine. That should get you in. She is sooooo cute. I cannot wait to see her in person and hold her and love on her and kiss her, okay you get the point. :love: :bb:

Off to shower then work. Have a good one and stay on the :beach:

Good afternoon -

Hope everyone is having a good Monday.

Jana - I know what you mean. Last week DBF and I went to a Cubs games, and I packed a cooler full of SBD snacks so I wouldn't be tempted. He laughed when I pulled out the carrots to munch on...but didn't have a problem eating the peanuts I brought instead to paying $3 for some at the park (haha). And besides trying to stay OP, ballpark food is way too expensive!!

SunLit - PB&J cookies? YUM!

lottie - OMG, I am totally addicted to ranch too. I eat it on everything. Good thing kraft makes and SBD friendly ranch or I'd be in trouble. :lol:

:hug: to everyone else...have a good day!

me: things are going well. The weather here has been really nice, so I went for a walk today at lunch. DBF and cleaned out the closet last night and I have two garbage bags of clothes that don't fit anymore :D

Well, work's almost over, so I better run!

:hug: to all

Bunnababy: you said I started taking a supplement that my sil is taking for fibromyalgia symptoms and it is supposed to help with the insulin resistance What medicine did you mean? I have fibromyalgia and they have me off all meds. I'm suppose to watch what I eat and drink, (no sodium) and not get overtired. It works most of the time. Just wondered if you could share!!

Hi chicks!

I'm late today. I'm a little down because I'm up 1.5 pounds today but I'm const*p*ted to much cheese and I ate too much steak yesterday. I'm eager to see if it jumps back down.

I went to see OBGYN about getting my tubes tied. He basically talked me out of it. He said that with all the STD's going around you basically have to wear protection anyhow so why worry about tubes tied - especially since I don't have anyone special in my life and I'm not even doing THAT! I had to thank him for the last part. :) He said to come back and see him when meet someone and it gets to that point. By that time I could be in menopause and it is a moot point. He did say I could meet someone who already has a vasectomy and I wouldn't have to worry about it. OH WELL. All I know chicks is this chick is too old to have any more babies! So I guess I will worry about it when I meet someone and it gets to that point. I know -I know - TMI - but I'm really perplexed about it. I didn't realize it was such a painful and invasive surgery.

Man did I fly my PMS broom around today! Whew - look out everyone below. I'm sure my weight could be up because of that too. If it doesn't come down soon - I'll quit the chocolate milkshakes.

Have a good night chicks!