Cruise, sorry to hear about Mack's foot injury :\ hope he makes a quick recovery

Good morning!

LAMBCHOP, Your story made me laugh so hard! Why is it we are so embarrassed by something that is so human and natural. Everybody does it! I'm also glad you have found a program that is working for you with a DR. you truly can relate to. I have no doubt you will get where you need to be and can switch to a plan you will be able to maintain. Keep up the good work!

ICU, Today is a new day. Sometimes days off plan can help us get our determination and focus back. You've had a little of what you shouldn't, it tasted good but you probably feel like crap today because of it. My Dh will turn 50 soon so a colonscopy is probably in our future, thanks for the warnings! LOL!

WLW, sounds like things are going well with your son. Smoking is a hard habit to quit and he has to want to do it himself. Cleaning is a good thing, wish my DS liked it!

NEWLEAF, Hope you enjoyed the symphony and survived your busy day. We are done with weekend sports for a while and I kind of miss it a little!

CRUISE, Hope Mack's foot is feeling better. I know what you mean about the treadmill, Boring!

How is everyone doing with their Holiday preparation. We have school til the 23rd. Whose idea was that? Did a little shopping this weekend and ordered some stuff online last night. Nothing like getting your shopping done in your PJ's while the recipient is seated nearby!

Signed our paperwork for our new floors, Monday they will give me some idea of when it can be scheduled. May try to get them done before Christmas if the days work out right, otherwise I will wait til Jan.

Hope everyone has a relaxing Sunday. I will be dressing 100's of teens for our church's Live Nativity. Just glad there is no rain in the forecast for us!

ICU, I calculate my recipe’s calories on the computer (I have several programs but I hear fitday works great). Then add it to LoseIt! Through the Create New Food button so I don’t have to add all the ingredients through LoseIt. Then the new food shows up in the My Food button instead of recipes.

Lamb, I think it’s wonderful you found a way to lose weight when other things weren’t working. You have a great plan to work back into foods as you get closer to maintenance. Sometimes taking the variety out of the diet so you can focus on other parts of life makes it so you don’t obsess so keep on your plan because it’s definitely working. And your story about the colonoscopy had me laughing and dreading ever having one!!! Thanks for the lightness.

OMW, eeks, I’m glad passing gas is embarrassing and that most do the bun tightening. Can you imagine the smell of elevators, subways, churches if everyone just let go??? Ok, now I’m laughing again.

So my weekend alone with my dogs – I returned home yesterday with Blizzie from the vet, called DD and mentioned I was tempted to drive down to Reno so we could go skiing at Heavenly. She’s like, then you’d better get on the road (it was one in the afternoon). I called DH and he’s like, go. So I did. Now I’m in Reno waiting for DD to wake up so we can go skiing. How cool is that??? I get to wear my new, form fitting ski suit that DD and I picked out on Black Friday. Also on Black Friday I went to a professional bra fitter and she did an ok job but was unsure of a 32 or 34 D and pushed to the 34D (I bought one) and then ordered a Wacoal racer back bra in a 32 and 34D from herrroom.com. The 32D fits perfectly. It is the first time that a bra actually supports and is so comfy. I ordered three more this morning and sent the 34D back. Who’d have ever thought a good fitting bra would be so exciting. Also, I have moved out of the size 10 jeans and into the 8s I bought on Black Friday. Single digits, very mind-boggling. And I got to move my ticker.

Have a great day and I’ll try to get a picture on the mountain to share.
Marie

Very cool Marie-skiing, good fitting bras, and size 8 jeans.

Lamb-you had me laughing. Nothing about bodily functions really phases me anymore.

I got my new toy yesterday. Thanks all of you for making me not feel so self-indulgent for having two cars. I've never done this before. I grew up quite poor and having more than I need is still an adjustment. My car is very nice-it does everything but cook my dinner. It has one of those voice recognition programs which I need to learn to use. I'm sure that will be very convenient and super cool. It's a hybrid so it gets 40 mpg too. That will be a nice change from my Jeep.

Remember me?

Hubby finally fixed the computer today by something silly like changing the date on the computer. I was able to get on another forum by not this one or a third??? We had no idea what was wrong or how to fix it. Computer's are crazy things!

I'm way behind with everyone. I lurked for a while but not being able to post was like window shopping. Try to play catch up tonight.

Penguin. Good to see you again.

I forgot to tell you all, I had my massage yesterday. My massage was not given by a family member so I let her do whatever she wanted. I knew I carried my stress in my shoulders but wow! My shoulders were like rocks I think.

I made an amazing Moroccan dish for dinner tonight. Roasted Vegetable Couscous with Chickpeas and Onion-Pinenut topping. OMG. It is everything I love about moroccan food-that mixture of sweet and savory flavors. This is the dish I had to make the spice mixture for. It's called ras el hanout. I have other recipes that call for it so I'm sure I'll get to use it again. Sort of like garam masala is to indian cooking. This is my new vegetarian dish for the month and it is a winner.

I use a food journal called weight-by-date. It is very convenient for calculating the calories,carbs, protein, etc in recipes as well as combining foods you tend to eat together as a group and just enter them as a meal. I found fitday very cumbersome for calculating the calories in recipes. If you made 1 mistake you had to start over from the beginning. I also have another computer program called mastercook which is very easy for running the nutritional info in recipes. Unfortunately weight-by-date only comes in a palm based mobile format. I'm waiting for one I can use on my blackberry.

penguin: welcome back! I had a similar issue with my netbook, lasted for almost a week before I noticed the date and time were wrong. funny how it effects some sites but not others.
maried: you're my hero, size 8's and a spontaneous trip to reno, oh my!
petra: thanks for sharing about weight-by-date, I'm going to do the free trail and see how it works : )