Good afternoon, ladies! It's a cold drizzly day today - 34 degrees right now.
Time is really flying for me with working so much. We've had people out sick at JH so they asked me to work more and I have. Doesn't leave much time for anything else.
I'm trying an experiment for this week and following the WW Power Start menu for this week. That way I don't need to think about food. I spent the morning cooking ahead for the days I get home late and preping salad things. I'm following the green Smart Choices tracker.
Jean, if I plan my meals in advance, I eat what I planned. It works better for me that way. Eating on the fly = no loss or very tiny loss for me. I'm hoping for no snow this winter.
Maggie, I'd forgotten all about the cottage cheese salad recipe. I'll be making it soon. I added it to my cookbook. There is a new WW cookbook out and for the live of me I can't think of the name right now but something like Best Ever Comfort Foods. It's sold at meetings only on maybe the shopping for WW online. It looks pretty good and I meant to buy one yesterday but we were so busy weighing I forgot.
Faye, I like Diane Mott's books and have read all of them. Have you read any of Joanne Fluke's? They are similar. I have a lot of things with chargers and haven't had to replace any of them yet (fingers crossed). One For the Money comes out on Friday - can't wait!
Another busy week coming up. Have a great evening.
gma22 , 01-23-2012 07:37 AM
Good morning to you all! It was really warm here yesterday and by late evening we had one heck of a storm blow through here. Jack got up at around 11 because the tornado sirens were going off big time and we put the tv on, which because of our satellite would come in and out, but after the power went out, then came back on a bit later, we were able to get what we needed to know. It was raining so hard, I couldn't even open the back door without getting a face full of blowing rain. I didn't see any hail like they were expecting though. It is all quiet out there now, but considerably chillier.
Got the commissary shopping done, came home and unloaded and put away then out we went to Target and to Walmart to get stuff. Jack found a great phone charger that the wiring is actually up in the plug rather than ending at it. I know it sounds confusing, but Jack told me what it is called when it is done that way, but I can't remember. Anyway, what would happen with our chargers is the tiny wires inside the cord right at the end of the plugs would break from stress then it would quit charging when you plugged it into the phone. This one has a flat cable instead of round and like I said the wiring goes up into the plug instead of ending at the plug so there is no stress. I am going to get myself one next payday or on Thursday when I am out. They have them at Target for around $20, cheaper than the Apple ones. We also bought a bunch of movies to take with us to Chattanooga since the hotel has a dvd player in the room. We did watch "The Smurfs" last night and that was a cute movie. My larder is now full of great healthy food, lots of fruit for me and no junk food. Not that we have junk food in the house for the most part unless Jack is dying for something, but I had gotten low on a lot of stuff and just needed to restock.
Susan: I am probably going to have to wait until "One for the Money" comes out on dvd. It is not something Jack would enjoy at all. I am wondering how the gal who plays Lula will do. In my minds eye reading the book, she is chubbier and a whole lot more trashy that the trailer looks, but let me know what you think. The books are becoming a bit dull and rehashed I think, just like any author that does a series and runs out of new ideas. Take it easy working so much. Don't want you ending up in the hospital again.
Maggie: I pretty much plan what I am going to eat for the day, put it in my spreadsheet and not veer from it so I don't over eat. It is the best way for me to stay OP I think and we always follow the menus I make for the two weeks. I think our biggest problems would be takeout/restaurant eating and buying something fatty and bringing it in, which we rarely do anymore. My weight is up, but mainly because the cold I had from Christmas until a week ago and combined with the pain and stuff from what is going on with me pretty much zapped me and Jack was cooking or mostly bringing stuff in, which is a sure way for me to gain weight. I am over the cold though of course the pain is pretty much constant nagging to intense and has been for a couple months now instead of on and off, but I just try and control it best i can with some Advil and am back on eating healthy and cooking our meals.
Jean: I think Jack said we are down to 34 weeks until vacation now. We should get our tax refund next week and I will finish paying for the cruise and stuff then and we will be set with a lot of it anyway. We picked out the colors we are gonna paint the downstairs now so I hope to go to Home Depot this weekend and get the paint chips so I can take them to Chattanooga and maybe buy some pillows or something to go in the living room. We have decided since our space is so crazy and right now I feel like we are living in some old used furniture shop with the way we have our furniture arranged with the craziness, we are going to get rid of our full length couch and get what Lazy Boy calls a sleeper chair, which is about the size of an apartment sized couch instead of full length. It has a twin size sleeper in it in case the boys are ever here since we are going to eventually make the upstairs bedroom into a closet so there won't be a guest bedroom up there anymore. Since we just bought the double recliner (which I hate btw) a few months ago, we have to keep it and it is dark blue so I am going with a blue/maroon/yellow plaid couch that will really go well with the paint color and the recliner. None of this is going to start until next year and it will be slow going as we can only do with the money we have since I refuse to go into debt to do any of this work. I don't want it hanging over our head when Jack retires.
Well, I see it is 6:30 so I best get in the kitchen and get the dishwasher unloaded and reloaded and decide on food for today. Have a grand start to your week and keep warm everybody!!!! Faye
Just a quick one as I leave one job and go to the other today. 60 degrees and sunshine right now. I love it.
Have a great day and we'll all see progress on the downward spiral of the scale next week.