Morning ladies- I knew there should be a new thread, but didn't have time to search for it yesterday. Just finished making the kids lunches, now it's time to make mine.
I've started journaling my food again to help me stay on track.

Army wife- kudos for no tasting of the brownies. I bought a mini muffin pan so if I do make treats for the kids, they are serving size controlled.

Bette- good for you on the painting. I just dream about changing our colors- but don't do anything about it!

Welcome back Blue Eyes!

Okay-gotta feed the kid lets breakfast. Have a feat day all!

Happy Monday everyone! (Though it is almost Tuesday here in SK now). Hope everyone is getting off to a good start for the week. I struggled today with an overload on my food intake. And I thought I burned more calories at the gym today than what I actually did. Oh well, there is always tomorrow. I am a BodyMedia Fit user, so it calculates my sleep effiency, my steps taken, my calories burned, etc. I wear it religiously but so far I haven't been seeing the results I would like to see but most of that is stemming from me not making the best food choices. No worries- I'm back on target again tomorrow!

Side note: The bf got food poisioning so the 5 hour walk to the beach tomorrow is cancelled. I'm planning on getting in a little time with WATP and Richard Simmons instead. :)

Have a great Monday everyone!!

Bette K- the paint color you chose sounds beautiful. It sounds warm.

Armywife88- You are amazing for resisting not only the brownines, but the batter! Willpower of steel!

Angie- Hope your little one gets to feeling better real soon

Shan- Food poisoning's awful. Hope your bf recouporates quickly. Have fun with the watp and Richard Simmons. He's such an amazing being.

Well, hopefully my week is better than last. It was tough. DS was sick Wednesday. ODD was sick Friday. YDD was sick Saturday. I was stressed out and frazzled. It's a strange bug, headache, fever, gone in a day. So at least the three of them were only sick for a day each. DH and I haven't seemed to have gotten it. But my mom had it yesterday, and she hasn't seen the kids in over a week.

When I weighed in for this I was 236. I am still around that mark even though I've been busting my butt at the gym nearly every day. I don't know what I should be taking in calorie wise because I'm still nursing, so it's an experiment. I'm basically eating when I feel hungry, but healthy foods. I don't want my supply to dry up. I do want to start a journal, so when I do *feel* hungry, I can jot down my feelings/thoughts, so I can determine whether I'm stressed/emotional/boredom eating.

I guess I'm not going to panic too much. The scale may not reflect it, but I feel leaps and bounds stronger. I suppose it'll come off eventually. When I started on the eliptical mid August, 5 minutes was pushing it. I was hurtin'. 2 1/2 weeks later, I was doing 65 minutes. All intervals. So I'm getting there, I just can't let myself get discouraged.

:cheer2::cheer2:Hello Red Team!!

Hope everyone is off to a great Monday so far.. Me, not so much.. Trying to make an appt with the orthopedic asap.. I have had upper back pain that is becoming extremely bad!! Saw the dr. on sat and the med's he gave me just make me sleepy.. In the meantime I plan to still walk each day, but am so frustrated that my work out routine needs to be less intense at the moment.. I think I am up a pound (weight yesterday) I have decided not to obsessively weigh until I am feeling better..(or the weigh in for here, which ever comes first) Plan to stay on track with my food, although I didn't even do that this past weekend.. UHG!!

I am at work and will come back later for personals.. Gonna have to try and catch up with the 2 pages of posts when I am not working... and the little ones are in bed..

I have a recipe for Low fat crust less pumpkin pie if you are interested. It is pretty easy to make.

Oooo, you should just go ahead and post that because it sounds awesome!

Yes! I totally brush my teeth while I'm @ home + then always have 3 different flavors of chewing gum w/me (sugar free). I did good last night, BUT @ lunch today I lost it. I am so stressed out, I told my classmates I wanted to just study by myself @ lunch. I should have just gone w/them. I ended up @ Wienerschnitzel which I have NOT eaten since Feb! Got 2 corn dogs, ate them along w/the fries, but at least I couldn't gulp the soft drink so that went in the trash, and when I got in the car I downed a bottle of water I had in there. Couldn't stop thinking about my f**k up all afternoon....and now my Mom is visiting + she is cooking of course! It's gonna be one of those day's for me that I just say screw it, I already went off plan, why not, kwim?
I think I might just take a nap + get up w/a different attitude! Thx for letting me vent!

Pumpkin Pie
 

:chef:Crust less Pumpkin Pie :chef:

Ingredients:
nonstick vegetable spray
2 tbls water
2 envelopes unflavored gelatin (7gm each)
2 1/4 cups Carnation Evaporated Lowfat Milk, divided
1 can (15 oz) can 100% pure pumpkin
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar (or low calorie sweetener equivalent)
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:
1. Coat 9-inch deep-dish pie pate with nonstick vegetable spray.
2. Place water in medium bowl; sprinkle gelatin over water. Let stand 5-10 minutes until softened. Mixture may be firm.
3. Bring 1 cup evaporated milk just to a boil in small saucepan. Slowly stir hot evaporated milk into gelatin.
4. Stir in remaining evaporated milk, pumpkin, sugar, pumpkin pie spice and vanilla extract.
5. Pour mixture into prepared pie plate.
6. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until set.
Makes 8 servings
Per Serving: 1 1/2 Starch. 1/2 Fat.
Calories 144
Carbohydrate 26g
Protein 7g
Fat 2g
Cholesterol 6mg
Sodium 91mg

MMMM-that recipe looks delicious.

Today was a good day. Eating was on plan and spent two hours at the Y for step and yoga. Hopefully the scale will be nice tomorrow. I am going out of town on Wednesday so I am bit worried how that is going to end up. Hopefully I won't gain any weight. In the meanwhile, I am going to be as good as gold before I go.

Tuesday is rough here in SK. The bf is feeling better this morning but I woke up and called my mother in the states only to find out that my dad was admitted into the hospital this morning for severe chest pains. It's so hard to deal with stuff like this when I'm on the other side of the world.

Hope everyone had a great Monday. Here we go Tuesday! GO RED TEAM!

Shan- :hugs: hope your dad is okay.

Nurse2be- :hugs: tomorrow is a new day. What's done is done- don't beat yourself up.

Polkadot- thanks for sharing the recipe- may have to try it out here when Cdn thanksgiving rolls around next month.

Sha25- have you thought about swimming? Non-impact and a great workout.

Julie99s- hope your kids are feeling better. We had our first bout with our youngest last week. Fingers crossed no one else will gets it.

Okay- off to bed for me...busy day at work tomorrow.

Argh, I'm so bad at personals! I'm forgetful, and then those pumpkin bars sound so good it distracted me. If only they weren't made with gelatin!

My day was not very exciting, most of it was just power struggles with my 3 year old and bedtime struggles with my 1 year old. Ah, the joys of being a mom. :) Tomorrow should be more eventful, we have open house at my son's preschool in the evening. Hope everyone has a good day!

pinkpolkadot - Thanks for the recipe! It sounds yummy and looks easy enough that even I should be able to manage. :P

shan84 - Hope everythings okay!

I set my alarm this morning to 5:30, had all my workout stuff ready to go (even slept in my sweatpants :P) and was all pumped up about starting morning workouts since afternoon isn't working so well...At some point during the night, I changed it to 7:00. How I managed that, I'll probably never know. And now I'm sitting here wondering how in the world I thought I'd be able to get up that early. *sigh* I'll try again tomorrow. If I could get into a good morning routine, I'd be all set. But, for today, I'll go to work and eat better than I did yesterday. At 4:30, I'll come home and take puppy to the dog park and maybe a walk.

I'm home again with my DS today. He seems fairly normal, but has the same sore throat and fever, so I can't send him to school. He's lapping up all the attention and TV time. :)

Nurse -- I know what you mean about how awful you feel when you mess up your plan. I ate some chips on Sunday night and was really beating myself up over it, but then I figured that was getting me no where...lol. Might as well let it go and move on to make better decisions, right?

I hope everyone has a great day. I'm pretty stoked because I entered a new 'decade' this morning and also hit -20 pounds since starting my new program mid-August. :carrot:

Shan, Hope your dad is ok.. Your family will be in my thoughts today!!:hug:

TERAPET- Glad you had a good day.. Are you going away for only one day?

pinkpolkadot-I love pumpkin pie, that receipe looks yummy. Thanks for sharing.

CanadaMel- Thanks for the suggestion. Summer is over here and I am not sure about a place w/ indoor swimming.. I love swimming so I will look into it..

nurse2be-:hug: Sorry yesterday was a hard day for you.. Hope today is better.. When I have days like that I tell myself pick yourself up dust yourself off and get right back on track.. Otherwise it's like a chain reaction, one off plan day can equal 2, 3, or more for me (like this weekend, UGH!! I am back on track food wise since Monday..

criseyde- I have to get up early in the am to get a workout in.. Otherwise I get way to busy with work, kids, dinner, homework, all that fun stuff. Lately I been struggling between my back and just getting out of bed in the am.

Angie- Congrats on the new decade and the 20 lbs lost.. Thats awesome!!

Me, I am actually feeling a little better this morning.. I think the Anti-inflammatory is starting to work.. I stopped taking the muscle relaxers except at night because I hate feeling drained and tired.. Hopefully I will be able to resume my normal work out routine shortly.. anyway, enough about me.. Hope everyone has a great day..